Madam Speaker, again I listened intently to my colleague from the Liberal Party. He quotes numbers like $2.5 billion for health care. The reality is that $2.5 billion announced in the budget is for health care, education and other social programs over a four year period. It is not just destined for health care.
If he is convinced that the health care announcement which the government made is so positive, why is every premier and territorial leader in the country upset and why is every other person who has ever accessed health care in the country, who has used home care and so on, upset with the Liberal government?
Several members on the other side, the Atlantic caucus as they call it, produced a document called “Catching the Wave”. In that document they called upon the government to introduce a shipbuilding policy, and I notice that the budget completely left that out.
On Wednesday we will be having a vote on Bill C-213 from the Bloc Quebecois. We will be initiating that. Will the hon. member be supporting the other Liberal members of his caucus in supporting a very important initiative for shipbuilding policy in the country? The budget certainly was not inclusive in that regard.