Mr. Speaker, what the NDP actually did was help people who needed it the most through the Canada housing benefit and the dental care program.
If the Conservatives ever get into power, what will they do with dental care? They will end seniors' access to dentists after 3.5 million people have already registered for the program and 645,000 people have benefited from it. I have called people who went to the dentist and saved $2,900 on dental care, dentures or prosthetics. That is nothing to sneer at. Some people were reimbursed the full cost of their treatments. That is money paid to them directly that they are able to save.
I fail to understand why the Conservatives insist on opposing social programs that give people access to better services and cost them nothing.