As many Federal ministries and agencies lurch into an era
             of running without funds, they are spending less and less time searching
             for a compromise to balance the budget, and more and more time deciding
             how to use it to their advantage on the campaign trail. Meanwhile
             services for Canadians are becoming inadequate and in some cases
             demolished. In an attempt to change this, the Jean Chretien Government's
             recent budget plan chiefly funded the crisis in our health care system.
             Merely for the funding of health care and other "socially friendly"
             services, Paul Martin's federal budget seems to be a left wing, but
             other fundings, like that of productivity and the military makes it a
             combination of a left wing and a right wing budget.
             So finally, after a pain-staking crisis in our health care
             system the Government decided to make an immediate payoff to the
             provinces. Ottawa funded the provinces a total of $3.5 billion that's
             being put into the Canada Health and Social Transfer (CHST) from this
             years budget. The money can be used by the provinces over the next three
             years. It's expected that $2 billion will be spent in this year alone.
             The government will also increase the yearly amount put into CHST. After
             five years the yearly transfer will be $15 billion. That's an increase
             from the current level of $12.5 billion, which Ottawa is now
             guaranteeing as a minimum. In total the provinces will receive $1.6
             billion more from Ottawa than they thought they were to get last
             October. The money can be used as the provinces choose, with strings
             attached. It may sound like a lot, but by the time the increases are in
             place, the transfer will still be below the nearly $19 billion that was
             transferred in the 1993-94 fiscal year. Also this money doesn't mean
             that lineups in emergency wards across the country will suddenly be
             eliminated. As Paul Martin said these ...