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Mr. Speaker, having failed to meet its debt-to-GDP target, a target that the Parliamentary Budget Officer projects will continue to rise, the government simply chose to change the rules in its last budget. When it comes to fiscal anchors, the government is like a hockey team trailing 5-2 late in the third period that decides to add three extra periods in the hope of winning the game. It is changing the rules after the fact. When a government establishes rules so that its performance can be measured from one year to the next, it cannot simply rewrite those rules. Of course, no one is expecting a balanced budget this year. Everyone understands that the public finances have been managed loosely. That was true under the Trudeau government, and it remains true today. The deficit is expected to exceed $60 billion. No one realistically expected a balanced budget. However, the fact that there is no clear fiscal anchor to show us whether the government has met its targets from one year to the next—in a country that prides itself on being a G7 nation and reminds us of this every five seconds—is, in my view, bordering on irresponsibility.