Madam Speaker, maybe the member is aware of the research done by the National Forum on Health. The report came out in early 1997.
One of the key observations in the report was that between 1975 and 1993 the actual spending per capita on health care in Canada almost doubled from $1,100 to $2,000. However, at the same time there was no evidence that the level of the quality of health of Canadians had improved. In other words, the experts concluded that money alone was not going to be the solution.
Taking that into account and taking the fact that Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland all have money from last year that they have not used, how does the member think this simplistic solution of transferring an additional $1.5 billion into health care will actually achieve anything? What evidence does he have?