Madam Speaker, the Liberal member is not happy with my criticism of the budget.
What I said was that this budget fails to focus on those in the greatest need. One part of the budget deals with research. My criticism was about the budget as a whole and its impact on the public.
What I said was that research funding duplicates and overlaps existing funding. The federal government is going to spend millions of dollars on administration instead of putting them where they will help people who are sick and those on waiting lists.
I criticized the number of documents and statistics that are going to be produced, with no regard for what the public is going through. Right now, we need more hospital beds, less pressure in emergency wards, more ambulances, and faster transportation. We need to give provincial governments the money they were entitled to expect, rather than the mere $150 million for health care they received. They were expecting $500 million for health.
The member lacks compassion for those who footed most of the bill for lowering the deficit. That is what I was critical of in the budget. They always talk about what makes them look good. He took one aspect of the budget, rather than the budget's overall impact on the public.