Mr. Speaker, I listened with a great deal of interest to the member's maiden speech. I would advise him to do a little better research. He should look at what has been done with the Canadian Business Development Bank, for instance. Its mandate has been expanded and it is certainly helping tourism in Canada.
He should also take a look at the Farm Credit Corporation because its mandate has been expanded. Not only does it deal with farmers, but it is now dealing with value added product which is helping the agriculture industry.
He talked in his speech about things that he had not heard the government say. One of the things I noticed was that he did not talk about health care. I would like to get his opinion on health care and what it should be into the third millennium. One-third of Canada's population, 9.8 million people, are now turning 50. There will be 500,000 a year turning 50 each year for the next 20 years.
The health care system is going to be used at a very high rate as this segment of the population ages. I would like to hear what his opinion would be on how we pro-actively answer that problem.