Madam Speaker, I appreciate the question. I have never heard of projecting funds five years down the road when there will be an election between then and now. It is very bizarre to be able to think and project beyond the mandate of the current government.
When we are talking about five years hence and we go back and look at the five years prior, we will find that the cuts have been $21.4 billion in the five years prior. Here we have $11.5 coming. Simple math would say two dollars taken out and one dollar being put in will never get us a shorter waiting line.
The demographics, the aging of our population, are extremely important and are one of the reasons Reformers are asking for a real honest debate on the future of health care. We are bantering back and forth. We say two tier is presently in place in Canada and they are blaming us for two tier. What we would really like is an honest debate with none of the name calling but a true fixing of the health care system. If we had that I would be proud to be a member of parliament and debating health.