Madam Chair, through you I will start by asking the minister a series of questions about my home province of Alberta.
The federal government allocated $3 billion to the provinces to help provide extra pay for essential health care workers, emergency responders and other crucial employees. Has Alberta received the federal funding to support the essential health care workers who are not just risking their lives on our behalf every day, but are also having to fight their own provincial government, which is tearing up contracts, laying off essential health care workers and failing to listen to our health care specialists?