Mr. Speaker, again, I think there must be some sort of collective mental block across the hall because when we talk about this budget building on the last budget and being the building block for future budgets, we are talking right now about what was promised in the last budget—the $850 million that will be starting in July and the other $850 million that will come over the next two years—together with the provinces which are anteing up money to put into services to help those same children who live in poverty, there will be a total of $3 billion over the next three years between the two levels of government. It's pretty simple math.
In the House of Commons on March 9th, 1998. See this statement in context.