Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to pick up on a couple of things that were said. First of all, I'm simply a soccer mom. I'm a parliamentarian, but I'm a soccer mom, so when I do my budget at home I take into consideration the revenues I have, the expenses I have, any investments I may have, and to get to the bottom line I have to include everything.
The frustration I have, Mr. Page, is that whenever I ask questions that are sensitive to you, because you really haven't included the good stuff, you try to stay away from it and you don't answer the question. So when Ms. Nash says we expect transparency, absolutely, that's why we created your position. We expect transparency. We expect honesty and fairness. Mr. Matier actually did say that you did take into consideration that chapter on innovation, on research, that kind of stuff, so I'd like him to point out what page that's on. He said EI as well. I see where EI is. So all I'm asking, and I hope it doesn't take you four minutes again, is to point out the page.
While you're looking for that, sir, I'd like to also ask you to clarify a couple of other things, because I only have five minutes and really four of those minutes were wasted dancing around the question last time.
The province-to-province health care spending, I thought that was an excellent question by Ms. Brown, and the ten-year projections I thought was an interesting comment. I would love to see that. If you could provide that to us, the ten-year projections of what the health care spending was, province to province, territory to territory, that would be very helpful.
I also want to comment that although I remarked about the one chapter on entrepreneurship and that kind of thing that seems to be absent, and Mr. Matier is going to get me the page in your report where it's addressed, I really don't see any investment information either, and how that assists in keeping Canadians in a situation where we're at an advantage. So things like, for example, the hiring credit for small business, the community infrastructure improvement fund in the budget, the Canadian Coast Guard--they have $5.2 billion that will generate jobs as well--all of those things help to generate jobs.
Again, going back to your contention that there are going to be 100,000 jobs lost, they're hypothetical. I know that now, after listening to you--that is what I asked you in the very first moment, and which you danced around for four minutes--but I do want to know, where are those projections for all these created jobs? It seems awfully odd that you would leave those out. So I'm giving you a chance here to explain where they are, and if you did leave them out who asked you to do that, because that's not transparent. That is not fair. That is not what a soccer mom would do in calculating a budget or making comments about a budget.
Frankly, there have been other economists who have said, Mr. Page, that you're very pessimistic when you do these things and there are things that are missing. So if you criticize the government on what's missing, it's because we've asked you to do a job, and we appreciate that. But you can't come here and do exactly the same thing and then try to dance around the question. So I'm giving you an opportunity to explain.