Madam Speaker, the parliamentary secretary talked about the cost of the production of oil. Newfoundland's is maybe higher offshore. The problem in Saskatchewan is that it is very heavy crude that we are trying to pump. We are into steam recovery. We are into upgrading it and all sorts of things. We have costs involved as well. I am saying that if the formula gets so convoluted and tough to work with it becomes a bureaucratic nightmare.
As I said in my speech, the average family in Alberta earning $30,000 to $40,000 a year pays 9% more in taxes than it receives in government services. The tax load has to be higher from Alberta, a have province, to subsidize a have not province like Saskatchewan next door. Those are the facts. Those are the government's numbers.
When we speak about health care in Saskatchewan, we have closed 57 hospitals in the last number of years. We are still spending $300 million more in health care than we did before we closed those hospitals. We have fewer doctors and nurses. We have longer waiting lists. We have a horrendous amount of administrators, facilitators, co-ordinators and all sorts of paper pushers and nobody servicing anybody who is ill. It is not acceptable.