Mr. Speaker, I know when the minister took this job they told her there would be no math, but there is.
There are only four sources of health care financing: federal transfers, patient contributions, private capital and provincial tax dollars. The minister is reducing the federal transfers. She is against the patient contributions. She is against the private capital. Therefore the only other source to replace the federal transfers is provincial tax increases.
If the minister is against all these things, in reducing the transfers will she not admit that she is in effect telling the provinces to get the additional revenue through provincial tax increases? Yes or no.