Mr. Speaker, it is pretty hard for me to understand what is going on in the House and across the country. From 1995 to 1998 the federal government cut $22 billion from transfers to the provinces. In the next five years it will invest $12.5 billion. That is half the amount it cut and it will take five years to do it. How can she say that we are in the best position we have ever been in when our parents and our children, when they go to the hospital, are left in the hallways instead of being given a bed? As a Canadian, how could she be proud of that?
In the House of Commons on March 2nd, 1999. See this statement in context.