Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased that the member asked those questions. First, with regard to his questions on health care it is funny how members of the government keep bringing up again and again promises that were made in previous years. The fact is that the government now is spending less on health care transfers to the provinces than the government was when the Liberals came into office in 1993. That is a fact. It is spending about 14% of the total cost of health care in the country.
When medicare was put in place, the federal government promised to fund it 50% and leave the rest to the provinces and local government. It now funds only 14%. How can the member stand up and brag about that? If it were not for the increases in spending in provinces like Ontario and Alberta, we would not have a health care system that was managing to hang on at all.
The member ought to be ashamed standing up and quoting that as a success of his government when the fact is it is spending less than was being spent back in 1993 when it came into office.