First of all, Madam Speaker, I want to thank the minister for her questions.
I would like to remind her of the position of the Bloc Quebecois. In 1977, when the five main criteria in the Canada Health Act were adopted, agreements were concluded with the provinces. The gist of these agreements was that the federal government would transfer to the provinces the money they would need to administer the health care system.
With respect to the cuts I mentioned earlier and to what I said in my speech, I would like to point out to the minister that she misunderstood entirely what I was trying to say, because I always said the Bloc Quebecois supported the five main principles of the Canada Health Act. However, we object when the government cuts transfer payments and then asks the provinces to do more with less money, when we know that the-