Madam Speaker, right in the middle of a pandemic, the health care system was compromised in Quebec and all the other provinces.
In the 1970s, health transfers covered 50% of health care spending. They were cut back and now they cover 22%. Quebec and the Canadian provinces all agree that health transfers should be increased from 22% to 35%, and yet nothing is being done.
The health care system was already strained; with the pandemic, it will take years to recover.
Does my colleague not think it is time to increase health transfers?