Mr. Speaker, the NDP pretends to have come up with an idea. It wants more money. Its idea in the 1997 election was a cash floor of $15 billion. We made it $15.5. The NDP said “How about adding $7 billion to health care”. We added twice that since 1999. Before we presented our health budget, the NDP said that we should put $2.5 billion more into transfers for health. We have added $14 billion. The NDP are a little behind the times.
In the House of Commons on May 11th, 2000. See this statement in context.