Thank you, Chair.
Maybe I'm the last speaker; I don't know. I'm sitting here listening to my colleague, the honourable member for whom I have the utmost respect, call COVID a party. I'm not sure about his province, but it sure as hell wasn't a party in my province.
I want to thank the minister and the government for the investments they made in health care. There's not a person on Prince Edward Island, which I represent, who would refute the investments that we're making in health care.
Our economy has shown resilience against many shocks, including the illegal invasion of Ukraine and COVID-19, both of which have placed many external pressures on our economy and economies globally.
You look at the fiscal responsibility of budget 2023 and the targeted spend that you created. When you listen to people like the Governor of the Bank of Canada and his response, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and the previous governor and many economists, they all say the same thing: If Canada wasn't in the position that we were in prior to COVID-19, we wouldn't likely be having these conversations here today.
You're going to go down in the history books as being a tremendous Minister of Finance who took this country through tumultuous times.
Back to health care, I want to be quick on health care. I was pleased, obviously, with the investments and the targeted investments.
Can you just expand on what those investments are going to do for the provinces?