Mr. Speaker, I have been listening to this debate for some time. The Liberal government has destroyed our health care system. It has cut $24 billion from health care spending since 1993. When the Canada Health Act came into existence the federal government agreed to share 50% of the cost with the provinces. It has now dropped to 15%.
The Liberal government should apologize to Canadians for causing the health care system to be in the shape it is today.
Canadians now know that it is going to take many years to rebuild our health care system which was destroyed by this government.
The Canadian government has put the health care system in this position. Now it is spending millions of dollars of taxpayers' money in a damage control campaign. The finance minister—