Mr. Speaker, let us go through the numbers and we can round them off if the member would like.
In 1993-94 the money transferred for health care and education amounted to $18.8 billion. In 1994-95, $18.7 billion; 1995-96, $18.5 billion; 1996-97, $14.8 billion; 1997-98, $12.5 billion; 1998-99, $12.5 billion; 1999-2000, $14.5 billion; and now for the next four years, $15.5 billion. If we went back to the level and kept it frozen at $18.8 billion from 1993 to the year 2004, the total would be $36 billion less than what would have been transferred had the government just frozen it at the 1993 level.
That is very simple mathematics but obviously Liberal mathematics is quite different from pure numbers. Those are the facts and for whatever reason the Liberals do not want to recognize them.