Mr. Speaker, in order to eliminate the $42 billion deficit which we inherited, we had to make cuts that affected everyone.
Still, the provinces continued to receive federal payments in the form of tax points. Half of the amount referred to earlier by the Bloc Quebecois leader has already been paid back through the tax points that have led to an increase in provincial revenues.
As I just said, the child benefit was used to transfer money to the provincial governments. We hope to have the same kind of co-operation in the case of health.