Health transfers are indexed at 3%, and a representative of HealthCareCAN, in a brief submitted to the Standing Committee on Finance in 2021, said that, owing to the pandemic, health care system costs accounted for 8.4% of the budget over the very short term. The indexing is expected to remain at 3% until 2027.
I am not here talking about a minor increase in transfers. It is crystal clear that we cannot be serious if we don't respect budget priorities and we don't make massive and immediate investments in the top priority, which is health.
Mr. Cloutier, don't you think that, if we want to have the means to ensure staff retention, considerable and recurrent structural investments must be made over the long term?