Madam Speaker, this morning's debate is kind of schizophrenic.
Everyone who got up to speak, no matter their political stripe, said there is a problem with Canada's health care system, that it does not make sense, that there are wait lists for surgery and mental health and that seniors are not getting the care they should be getting. Everyone agrees on that. People are practically unanimous in saying something must be done about it.
True to form, the NDP moved a motion that does not belong in the House. We are going to spend a day wasting our breath because the things the NDP wants to talk about today are up to Quebec and the provinces.
The Liberals have made their choice. They have decided not to be part of the solution. The provinces and Quebec asked for $6 billion, but the Liberals gave them $1 billion. Now they are merrily flinging numbers around as though they were fixing things.
My Conservative friends have come to the same conclusion, but have they come up with the same answer? They have been pretty quiet about whether they would significantly increase health transfers to fix the country's health care system if ever—