Mr. Speaker, I want to go back to the comments of the member for Medicine Hat. It seems that everything is the problem of the federal government and the provinces are saints and have done absolutely nothing wrong. Perhaps he should represent the Canadian people at the provincial level. Yes, there were cuts as we all know to get rid of the deficit. It is not a big secret. However in the health care system, after the last health accord the funds have all been replenished in the system.
The problems in the provinces were not due simply to the cuts that took place at the time. There were a great many other problems in the provinces themselves including their own cuts.
I will use my own province of Ontario as an example where tax cuts after tax cuts were made even at the expense of dealing with its deficit and debt situation. We replenished per capita funding to Ontario which had been taken away previously. That was a huge windfall of close to $1 billion. However the hon. member refuses to talk about that. In Ontario now it is a per capita basis transfer of moneys.