That's fantastic. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is very relevant to what we're talking about today. Maclean's magazine from 1996 referencing the Chrétien-Martin Liberal government at the time said:
Between fiscal years 1994-1995 and 1998-1999, Ottawa will have sliced almost $80 billion cumulatively from federal spending. The bulk of those cuts are to come: $19 billion in the year ahead; $23 billion in the following year; almost $26 billion on the brink of the millennium. Almost everything and everyone will be affected. Between last year and the 1998-1999 budget year, annual cash transfers to the provinces for health, postsecondary education and welfare will drop to $11.8 billion from $18.3 billion—
—that's annual, a drop from $18.3 billion to $11.8 billion—
—which may prompt tuition increases and cuts to insured health services and welfare payments.
So there is a consequence to spending right now. When you take a look at the McGuinty government and then the Wynne government and the Ontario debt situation, from 2002-03 to 2008-09, before the economic crisis, they increased spending—