Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the hon. member on the subject of health care. I heard her echoing the thoughts of the Ontario government that this was a problem caused by the federal government. I would like to suggest two facts and see what her answer is.
First, she may be aware that recently, just before the election, the federal government put an extra $23 billion over five years into health care. This year alone the increase for Ontario was $1.2 billion which was 100% of the increase in Ontario government spending this year on health care. Effectively the federal government this year covered 100% of the increase.
Second, I would have thought that governing was a question of choices. The Harris government chose to have major tax cuts long before it was into a surplus, when it still had big deficits. It is choosing to implement a corporate tax cut of $2.2 billion on January 1 next year. Surely it is equally or more the case that the problems it has in health care are a function of its own rapacious tax cutting long before it got out of deficit.