I appreciate the Minister’s perspective there and I know he has the same perspective as me in the long run. What it also means is we’re giving up the opportunity for services to people and for doing a better job at dealing with the cost of living, et cetera. We have a record for continually going back to big daddy to raise our borrowing limit and so on, and we don’t seem to pay much attention to those. We try to have a $100 million buffer, and that’s starting to disintegrate because of these sorts of decisions and unexpected costs.
The alert, I think, is unexpected costs are becoming an expected part of the routine business that we deal with because of some of these larger problems that we have not been effectively dealing with. That’s an alert that we need to maintain buffers and perhaps should contemplate larger buffers, Given
that we have seen in a year like this we can do in those buffers with one season’s events.
I appreciate the Minister’s perspectives. He is our Minister of Finance and I am commenting from the outside, but I am commenting with seven years of trend in mind. I know others might have similar concerns. I will leave it at that, Mr. Chair.