Thank you, MP Sidhu. Thank you, Sonia. I'm glad to see you during this new year.
A large part of the $63 billion additional investment that the federal government made in protecting the health and safety of Canadians was designed to help our health care workers, to whom we have such a debt of gratitude for the hard work they did during COVID-19. Furthermore, we promised in the campaign a rapid investment of an additional $6 billion for greater access to primary care, including training, hiring and retaining personal service workers, nurses, doctors and all the people we need, because these people are looking after the health needs of so many other Canadians in Canada.
The third thing is an additional $6 billion to reduce the backlog in surgery. It's a key input to help surgeons, doctors, nurses and hospitals across Canada and to support health care. It's a personnel investment, but it's obviously also to look after the large number of Canadians who have seen their surgeries—heart surgeries, cancer surgeries—delayed by the COVID-19 crisis.