Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I haven't had a chance to welcome Kathleen Wynne's former minister of finance to the House of Commons. I want to congratulate him on joining us. He shared with us his deep concern for fiscal responsibility. He just asked to balance the books. Stephen Harper balanced the books. He's concerned about fiscal responsibility—he wants us to believe. I can only say that if Kathleen Wynne's finance minister is the voice of fiscal responsibility in the Liberal caucus, then we have even bigger problems than I thought we did.
We heard previously that Canada is going to spend $46.4 billion this year on debt servicing. That's not new spending. That's not new debt. That is just taxpayers' money that we have to spend to maintain the debt we already have. That's in a context where the current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has more than doubled the national debt.
To the Parliamentary Budget Officer, how does that $46.4-billion figure compare to the total amount that the federal government transfers to the provinces for health care?