It certainly is one of the things. We are there because we believe that the medicare system deserves to be protected, but also deserves to be changed and reformed as is required by the times. It's not as though we're for a static medicare system of all things going on as before, forever—that's not true. What we do want here is to not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The majority of what the Canadian health care system can deliver, it delivers very well. There are other things that need to be dealt with, but a solution is not to have more in the way of private care, and the brief details why.
To cut to the chase, you withdraw much more in the way of resources from the public system when you set up a private system parallel—