Mr. Speaker, that increase was budgeted in 2004.
The total cost of tangible help for more than 600,000 family caregivers would be less than one-half of 1% of the current government's annual spending, to which Conservatives are now adding $16 billion for untendered stealth fighter aircraft. They provide no justification for this being the airplane Canada needs, no competition, no regional industrial plan, and no job guarantees.
Why is there a $16 billion blank cheque for that and nothing for caregivers?