Mr. Chair, I am a member of the government. In 1995 we faced an enormous situation in terms of dealing with the deficit and the debt. In fact, there were some in the international financial community that described us as virtually a third world nation, thanks to 10 years of Progressive Conservative economic mismanagement. So yes, that was in 1995, and in fact the official opposition was one of the most strident voices in this place and across this country in terms of getting our economic house in order.
That is exactly what we did and everybody in this country sacrificed. Everybody in this country gave something up. If the hon. member is saying that as part of getting our house in order so that we are now this economic miracle that the rest of the world turns to, yes, everybody sacrificed, including cuts in transfer payments to the provinces. At this point, rather than focus on the past, because we knew what we had to do, we had the courage to do it and we did it, let us now move forward. Let us look to the future. We are reinvesting in health care and we started reinvesting in health care in a major way in September 2000.