Mr. Speaker, it was said earlier by my colleague from Yorkton--Melville that the waiting times we face in Saskatchewan are double and triple that of what we see in the rest of Canada.
The problem goes back to the federal government originally being a fifty-fifty partner in health care. That number went as low as 14¢ on the dollar in some provinces. We have now ramped it back up, with all these side deals that the Prime Minister made to buy votes in the last couple of elections and with his scary health care philosophy, to 25¢ on the dollar. It is still half of what it should have been that many years ago.
When we look at the cataclysmic effect that has had in health care, that is what has led to the lineups. We have lost all of our doctors and our small town health care systems because the federal government did not put in its fair share, and it continues to not do that.