I really hesitate to ask a question, Madam Speaker. I do not want the member to get too worked up in the House.
It is the member's party that had the biggest cutback in the history of this country in terms of health care in February 1995. Even with the additions in this budget, it will be 2004 before the same expenditure is made that was made in 1995 in terms of transfers to the provinces for health care. Nine years later we get back to 1995.
Is the member not ashamed and embarrassed to sit in a government that was so conservative that it had the biggest cutback in terms of social transfers in the history of this country? Is he not ashamed of that?
I know the member from Scarborough who sits behind him, the fellow with the beard, hangs his head in shame when I talk about that issue. Does the hon. member share the same opinion as the member from Scarborough?