The reason I switched politically over the years—I speak to university students a lot and they ask me this question—is not because the things I care about changed, but because how we get there changed.
A big trigger for that for me was the cuts in the 1990s to the transfers, particularly the health transfer. I believe $35 billion over multiple years was cut. I pulled up a chart here, and it's more shocking when looking at the chart than I remembered, seeing those devastating cuts. It was a Liberal government at the time, largely instigated by debt that was run up in the 1970s and interest charges on that debt in the 1980s.
Mr. Barua, what was the impact of those cuts in the 1990s, and have we ever really fully recovered from them?