Madam Speaker, the member for Winnipeg North and his colleagues from the governing party go around telling everyone that it is important to invest in infrastructure. They talk about hospital infrastructure.
However, the budget lays out $5 billion over three years to build hospitals in all the provinces. That comes out to about $1.7 billion a year. For Quebec, this means $300 million a year over three years. The Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital alone is likely to cost between $5 billion and $6 billion.
Although it is saying that it is investing in hospital infrastructure, is the government not simply telling Quebeckers that it does not care about patients, those who are sick or the health care system itself, and that, ultimately, their concerns come far behind the oil interests of the western provinces?