Mr. Speaker, I cannot answer, and I will never try to figure out why the government does what it does.
Moving forward, we are approaching a $1.4-trillion debt. The cost to service that debt, should interest rates climb even a quarter of a per cent, would have a significant impact across all aspects of the government's ability to do all sorts of things, such as pay health transfers.
This pandemic has shown us one thing: that more attention needs to be paid by the government to health care and to health transfers. We, as a party, would certainly be willing to have a look at what that might be like moving forward.