The final item I would like to raise is the whole issue of the cash or non-cash amounts that this government has. We seem to be borrowing and always seem to have a negative cash flow.

I guess the concern I have is that we are now looking at possibly two years of deficit budgets and the amounts of borrowing needs obviously has to increase to cover the needs. I just want to highlight that because I think it's very important that we try to keep ourselves in a positive cash flow situation. This government can't be in a position where it's going to be paying so much for interest on borrowed money that somewhere down the line we overburden ourselves so that we can't keep up payments. That's how the federal government deficit keeps growing. Its debt load is so high and the interest it pays is so high that it is almost impossible to recover and get back to positive cash flows.

I would just like to make that comment because it's been highlighted by the committee, knowing the fiscal position that we are coming into, not only this year but next year -- next year it will be worse. So I don't know if there is a recommendation that I'll support of the committee's making, but I am just wondering if the Minister had any comments on that area.