Madam Speaker, I agree that the numbers should accurately reflect the reality. This is where the rub comes in. What does the budget say? What is the number that is being communicated by the Liberals? What number are they using in terms of what they are putting into health care?
The number is $11.5 billion. We hear it all the time. That is because the little number of $2 billion which they are actually putting in, in the coming year, is so small. After cutting $20 billion out of health care, how would the Canadian people accept that they would only put $2 billion in? They got into their little corner and asked what they could do with this number. Like my leader said the other day, they just came up with a magic number to multiply it by. They multiplied the number by five for the next five years.
This is an annual budget. I do not mind them giving projections, but I think it is downright dishonest to say they are putting $11.5 billion into health care when in fact this year $3.5 billion is being put into the year before and $2 billion into the planned year. Those are the actual numbers. To say $11.5 billion in the face of that is just not accurately communicating to Canadians what the facts are.