Finance committee  You said it was the last question, but you didn't tell me how much time I had.

Finance committee  That is a great question. I think that sometimes it's easy to say that there's a study to show that around the world there's waste. I know from being in the positions I've been in around the cabinet table, and certainly as a member of the Treasury Board and the chair for the las

Finance committee  Certainly, in Prince Edward Island, we've done a phenomenal amount of work to ensure that our immigration numbers are high, as high as we can get them. Prince Edward Island is the leader in Atlantic Canada on immigration. We remain one of the leaders in the country. One of the c

Finance committee  I certainly think we have a very diversified economy here. We range from IT to pharmaceutical, bioscience, marine technologies, and aerospace. It's a very broad and diverse economy for such a small jurisdiction, and we certainly need a skilled labour force for a lot of those jobs

Finance committee  Health care was about 40%.

Finance committee  I'd say it's been growing at about 5.5% or 5.7%.

Finance committee  Even if the cost of health care didn't rise, it was just year over year. It's $5 million a year compounded.

Finance committee  Plus the $5 million, yes, and that will be compounded each year after that.

Finance committee  Additional, yes.

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  The health minister is not in the room, but I don't believe there has been enough of that discussion to date for me to accurately answer that question. I certainly agree with what the federal government is proposing, which is that specific funding go into specific areas. I don't

Finance committee  We haven't heard anything on that yet.

Finance committee  We're still in those discussions, and we'll negotiate that.

Finance committee  That's correct.

Finance committee  We will be controlling it.