Mr. Speaker, wherever costs are lower it is because the standards are not being met right now. It is a sign of things to come.
Experts tell us health care costs are rising by about 50 per cent and the economy is only growing by 4 per cent. The federal government is planning to reduce funding from 10 per cent of GDP to 8 per cent. That means less federal money for medicare, no matter how you look at it.
I have seen the confusion created at the provincial level in Saskatchewan when governments said one thing and did another.
Is the government planning to offload medicare funding on to the provinces by putting a cap on Canada social transfers?