Mr. Speaker, I sympathize with the minister. I am willing to talk about working together, but the numbers still speak for themselves. The federal government's share of health funding sits at just 23%.
There is a recurring phenomenon that has been very well documented in the Canadian federation, and that is the fiscal imbalance. The minister may have already read the report by Yves Séguin, a Liberal minister from Quebec, which covers this problem in depth. What is the fiscal imbalance? It means that the federal government's revenues tend to grow faster than its spending. The opposite is true for the provinces, whose spending tends to grow faster than its spending, particularly because of the explosion in health care costs.
The Conference Board analyses come to the same conclusion: If the federal government does not make massive investments in health care, the provinces' finances will not be sustainable come 2035. We will be getting the same type of report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer year after year, on an ongoing basis, indicating that if the federal government's share of health care costs is not increased, in the long term, by 2035, the provinces' finances will not be sustainable.
Does my colleague feel that the federal government is doing enough in terms of health transfers?