Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. He hit it right on the nose when he said the government had no plan.
Certainly with the recent closure of Devco in Nova Scotia one would have thought the Liberal government would have had a parallel plan like we did when the base was closed in Summerside and the GST centre was opened.
Unfortunately the long term plan of the government is not in place and there was no announcement for these workers. The superport would certainly have been great compensation for this closure.
We can look at the budget and what it says about the $11.5 billion for health care in the next five years. It is an important factor. The member has probably heard a lot about it in his own riding. People are on waiting lists, waiting for serious operations. Nurses and other workers are overworked. The $11.5 billion in five years will take us back to the point where we were in 1996.
We must take into account the aging population and inflation. Just to show how the government's long term plan works, $3 billion a year times five years is $15 billion. Since 1996 we have had a very large shortfall, but certainly the government has no long term plan. Unfortunately that is the case for Nova Scotia as well.