Now, Ms. Gibeau, we've been saying that the government should be flexible. They're moving to balance their budget. We're saying flex it out, go out a year or so, because we need to do some investing in Canada. Here, the Conference Board of Canada has talked about social infrastructure. They talked about engaging more Canadians in the job market, particularly women and aboriginals. For women, for instance, a child care program could be started. But I want to take it a little further.
In the last election campaign, the NDP talked about the lack of long-term care beds and basic home care, that we would have two social transfers to guarantee that.
To my mind, when I heard your remarks about protecting the Canada health and social transfer, I thought of the huge load on that transfer coming from poverty—which is 21%—and also from people being housed in hospitals who should instead be in home care.
I'm just wondering what your response is to that.