Madam Speaker, I appreciate the appropriate point of order from my colleague.
Let us look at this program. In the fiscal year 2024-25, the eligible population in Canada for the program was about 549,324 people, as I mentioned, of whom 440,537 were asylum claimants, protected persons and victims of human trafficking and family violence. We can imagine those individuals, depending on which part of the world they come from, as asylum claimants, protected persons and victims of human trafficking and family violence. Would members not agree that they would require some important health care services, when it comes to not only primary health care but the kinds of counselling and physiotherapy they would need in order to rebuild? For those who are listening to this debate, that is what the money is going toward, trying to help those particular individuals.
If I look at, for example, the victims of human trafficking and family violence, the costs went from $91.3 million to $372 million over that one period. Of that $1 billion the Conservatives are speaking of, $327 million went toward victims of human trafficking and family violence. I for one would argue that the money was well spent. The kind of care needed for those individuals to rebuild their lives is really important. However, what we have heard in the debate is that somehow the entire $1 billion has been wasted and spent on “bogus refugees” or “fake refugees”. Those are not my words but the words of the leader of the official opposition. That is not the case. The numbers do not bear that out.