Mr. Speaker, it is quite a chore to sit and listen to the hon. member across deliver, and I am trying to think of the word for it but I guess it was a diatribe on how the Liberal government and particularly his hero the Minister of Health were the ones that were the leaders in getting compensation for the hep C victims.
The member forgot that the Minister of Health only obtained compensation for half of them. What about the other half? That has been the question in this House for the last two or three weeks. What about the ones that were so conveniently forgotten by this disgraced Liberal health minister and his colleagues? We watched the Minister of Health sink deeper and deeper into the pit of disgrace and we wondered whether he would have the courage to show his head again.
Just the other day when the provincial governments were talking about how they wanted to take a second look at the forgotten hep C victims, the Minister of Health and the Prime Minister had the audacity to condemn the provincial health ministers for the compassion they were showing to the forgotten hep C victims. That was disgraceful. The Minister of Health had the gall to label their compassion as the lowest form of cynicism. The actions by the Minister of Health and the Liberal Party toward these hep C victims is, in a word, reprehensible. They should be ashamed of themselves.