Thank you, Chair, and thank you all for being here today.
Mr. Broadbent, it's truly an honour to have you here today. I'm so happy you're here.
I do have a couple of questions for you. I would like to pursue my line of questioning with you, if you don't mind. You spoke in your remarks about governments making political choices, and that's what we do as a government. Our political choice, in terms of the Canada health and social transfer, is the health transfer going up 6%, plus nominal GDP, and the social transfer going up 3%, plus nominal GDP. We give that block transfer to the provinces and they in turn spend it on health, and social transfers are spent on education, etc. They have not been spending all the money we've been giving them—in fact, a lot less than what we've been giving them.
Could you talk a bit about the political choices they are making? We seem to be making the right choices on that front and they are making the wrong choices. Could you comment on how their choices are contributing to social inequality?