Mr. Speaker, the Liberal members on the other side are doing a very good job cheerleading and boosting their budget, but I can guarantee that not everybody in the country is doing cartwheels in quite the same way.
We have received a series of critical faxes from organizations like the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Health Care Alliance, the Canadian Federation of Teachers and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce that point out the irony of this.
In a budget, in which the primary focus and concern was to fix health care, we have seen a meagre and paltry $2.5 billion. I remind the hon. member for Vancouver Quadra that in the province of Manitoba that amounts to about $20 million per year over four years. This is an amount of money that is almost insignificant. It does not register in the total overall health care spending.
Of all the initiatives and the lofty ideas the member had in terms of spending and reinvesting in the knowledge sector and post-secondary education, what does he suggest Manitoba should do with its $20 million for health care, post-secondary education and social allowance?