Mr. Speaker, the Bloc Quebecois has been saying so for five years, and now the Minister of Industry is also publically criticizing the government's decision to put 100% of its surplus toward the debt, rather than half, despite what the Liberals had promised.
The former Minister of Health, who incidentally is pretty slow on the uptake on this, has suggested that by doing so, the federal government is largely responsible for creating the problems that the health care system is experiencing.
Will the Prime Minister agree with the Minister of Industry and acknowledge that his government's budget practices have exacerbated the problems that we are experiencing when it comes to health care?