With all due respect, Mr. Minister, this is not the first time you have given me that answer, but it's a basic question.
Of the $63 billion you mentioned to me, $42 billion are transfer payments already scheduled each year. You decided to increase health transfer payments by only 4.8% in 2022‑23, while system costs rose by 5.2%. You are keeping indexation at 3%. So all in all, that means you are investing under $3 billion in substantial recurrent funding in the system.
Quebec and the provinces need to be able to plan and rebuild their health care networks. To do that, they need to know how much recurring leeway they will have. Right now, some patients are not being screened for cancer. We are still expecting more and it will cost billions of dollars because we can't treat those people right now.
What are you doing for patients who don't have COVID‑19?
If you refuse to invest and settle the issue of health transfer payments, you are responsible for the non-COVID patients who are not being treated at this time.