Mr. Speaker, what the Minister of Finance did is restore the cash transfer payments to the provinces to the level recommended by the forum on health. It stated that if we restored the $12.5 billion in transfer payments it would be enough to operate these programs. This is exactly what we have done.
We cut when we needed to cut and now that we are doing better we have restored the $12.5 billion in cash transfers to the provinces. Now that the economy is performing well, the provinces are making more money because the tax points are producing more—