They simply did not get it. I am told that these senior citizens are owed some $3 billion. These are people who, for the most part, are also sick. However, this government again cut from the transfers to the provinces, who deliver health care.
This government has always been good at cutting in the jurisdictions that do not belong to it, but not for itself. Quite the opposite, today, we are being asked to increase funding for its privy council, its propaganda machine. We know that Communications Canada is a part of the privy council.
Restraint and cuts, they do not happen there. Reduced budgets and more modest budgets, they do not apply to this government.
On the contrary, this is a growth period for the Prime Minister's Office and the Privy Council Office.
Now they want $101 million from us. This is money that Canadian workers struggled to earn and that is deducted from their pay.
A study reported this week that Canadians have lost 10% of their purchasing power in the past ten years, whereas in the case of Americans, for the same period, it has increased. Canadians are therefore 10% poorer than they were when the party opposite took office. They have more than feathers to put in their cap. They have made gaffes. They are covered in spots, like dalmatians.
Now, they have the gall to demand an increase of $101 million. Why? It is pretty easy to imagine that it will go to maintaining the Langevin building, across the street, which is full of officials working for the Prime Minister—