Mr. Speaker, earlier in the debate, my colleague from Montcalm explained that this budget represents a disengagement from health care funding because the health transfer could potentially increase more slowly than the costs of the system. In response, the member for Bourassa, the great intellectual, and the member for Trois‑Rivières, the great diplomat, shouted names at the member for Montcalm, saying that he was wrong. I know that my colleague from Montcalm knows that what he said is true, and he knows what disengagement is: it is when a transfer increases at a slower pace than the costs of the system. We know this because it gets taught in introductory CEGEP courses and university intro to economics courses.
I would like to know whether my colleague from Alfred-Pellan will explain to his colleagues why, technically speaking, this is a disengagement from health care. Does he perhaps think we should freeze the salaries of a couple of Liberal MPs for a couple of years to show them what happens when sums of money are not indexed?