Mr. Speaker, the Liberals like to say that health care is part of the basic fabric of Canada. We now see how the Liberals treat the basic fabric. They ripped $21.4 billion out of the cloth and it is full of moth holes now. In spite of the $800 more per person that the U.S. spends on public health care, American taxes are 30% lower than in Canada.
When is the government going to get off its big fat budget surplus and put the Canadian health care system back on the road to recovery?