Mr. Speaker, I have sat here and listened with a lot of interest to the two speeches by the Reform members. My evaluation of the speeches by the members for Calgary—Nose Hill and Calgary East was that they were long on rhetoric and very short on facts. I will try to get an answer out of the member for Calgary East.
In the last budget, we transferred emergency funds to the provinces and they were to spend it. Now we find that in Quebec, for instance, it took $700 million, which was supposed to go into health care, and put it into a savings account at the TD Bank. We transferred $1.3 billion to Ontario, Mike Harris' government. It spent $750 million of it but banked $556 million, again in a savings account. Mr. Harris says he will spend every cent of it on health care.
My question for the member is how do we get the provinces to spend the money we are transferring to them on health care instead of putting it into a savings account? How do we do that?