Mr. Speaker, in February of this year Canada's first ministers agreed to a new health plan to improve access to quality care for all Canadians. Canada's health care renewal accord of 2003 is an important step to improving universal health care for all Canadians.
The premier of the province of Ontario recently stated that the $2 billion they expect to get for Ontario's share of the anticipated increase in federal health care dollars will be used primarily to reimburse the province for what it already has spent on health care rather than to provide new services.
My constituents of Erie--Lincoln support the Romanow report and have called on the Governments of Canada and Ontario to ensure accountability in provincial health care spending. They fear Mr. Eves is scheming to use new federal health care funding for his tax cuts and other unrelated expenditures rather than to improve the medicare system.
I urge the Government of Canada to ensure that federal dollars given to the provinces for health care spending is used for its intended purposes and nothing less.