Mr. Speaker, I want to correct the record in this House that it is the Conservative government that has increased extraordinary amounts of transfers to our provinces to ensure that they have the money they need to work. I would like to read some quotes into the record. This one is from May 4, 2000:
I do not need to remind anyone in the House that the Liberal government devastated health care in Canada by making draconian slashes to health care, by reducing health care funding and by putting health care in a crisis in every province....
Who said that? It was the member for Kings—Hants.
As well, there is this statement:
Shifting the burden to provinces for these services was the easy but cowardly way to accelerate deficit reduction....The Chrétien—