Mr. Speaker, does my colleague not think that the government's failure over the years to meet its responsibility to increase health transfers, as Quebec and the provinces have unanimously been calling for, and the fact that the health transfers have not been properly indexed contributed to the overall decline of health care systems in Quebec and the provinces during the pandemic, forcing the government to take measures that it probably could have avoided if the health transfers had allowed the provincial governments to do their job properly with their own health care systems?
It is very disappointing to me to see no mention of permanent, unconditional health transfers in the economic statement.
I would like my colleague's opinion on the effect this may have had on our health care systems during a crisis.