Madam Speaker, the health minister invites us to look at what is happening in the real world. In the real world there are growing waiting lists. There are crowded emergency rooms. There are ambulances that cannot get into hospitals and are being turned away. There are people who cannot afford the soaring cost of pharmaceuticals.
In the real world the federal Liberals reduced their previous contribution of $18.5 billion down to $12.5 billion. How could the health minister not acknowledge that the government has not even restored the level of cash contributions to health care spending to what it was when the Liberals took office? How can they, in the real world, pretend that is not so?