Madam Speaker, the two areas that I will address, because the member was up for quite a bit of time, are with respect to the G-7. He made reference to the accounting practices of the G-7. G-7 countries make use of what is called the financial requirements way of doing their books. We actually use the national accounts system which is a bit more stringent. In fact, if we moved to the way the G-7 looks at countries and the way they do books, our numbers as a country would look much better.
In terms of the health care issue, the member was taking exception to my comments about making the health care system perhaps a bit more transparent. What I was really making reference to was when a physician perhaps in Quebec or a physician in the maritimes or a physician out west may make an advance or a discovery in terms of service delivery, there is no system in place right now throughout the country where there is an exchange of this type of information.
When there is an exchange of this type of information we end up with a better quality of health care. I am not sure that the hon. member really would want to say he does not want to have Quebecers receive a better quality system of health care. That is the whole intent of the health care budget, that whether one lives in Quebec, out east or out west, one has an ability to receive quality health care.
There is no question that the delivery of health care is a provincial jurisdiction and that there is no intent by the federal government to invade provincial jurisdiction, because I know that is a big problem for the members opposite. What this health budget does is transfers $11.5 billion to provinces in order to deal with health care. But it also provides opportunity and framework for provinces and health care providers to communicate with each other so that they can provide greater efficiency in the health care system.
That is what it is all about. It is about Canadians regardless of what province they live in. Canadians want better service and this budget will help governments deliver it.