Finance committee  I think we have an excellent health care system once you're into it. There's a problem with access. I've had some personal experience with my mother, etc., and I've been very satisfied here, but there is a problem with access and queueing, and that's going to have to be addressed, whether by privatization or through some balancing of something.

Finance committee  Yes. As I listen to all these presentations here, one thing that comes to mind is that to be able to afford all these things, we must have a healthy economy, and we must make sure governments don't waste money so that we can provide the basis for that. Yes, I'm finding in our limited experience that it is a little bit easier to do business there, and that the environment's a little bit better.

Finance committee  The situation in Ottawa.... I don't think they are contradictory at all. I think we need better border service, plain and simple. Obviously security and safety and all these issues come into play. We need just more bodies on a long weekend when people are crossing the border, rather than fewer.

Finance committee  All I can tell you is that this has taken a tonne of time. They've been compassionate in the sense of being understanding of the amount of time and giving us extensions, but it should be much simpler than that. There was another program, an energy program, that we just basically bowed out of.

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to speak before your committee. My name is Leo Ledohowski, and as its chair I represent the Manitoba Hotel Association. It's an association that started in 1927, and out of 327 hotels in this province we represent about 90% of them.