Mr. Speaker, no one is going to quibble with Romanow's suggestion that more money for medicare is necessary. After all, it was the Liberal government that started the health care crisis by cutting over $25 billion from health care transfers to begin with.
Since Romanow's report calls for $15 billion in new spending and the projected surplus is $14 billion, and that is for spending of all kinds, how can the government possibly pay for this wish list without increasing taxes?