Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister.
Yesterday the Government of Alberta introduced legislation having to do with the privatization of health care in that province which, if allowed to continue, will be the beginning of the end for medicare in this country.
Today is the day when the Government of Canada should act in order to assure Canadians that this will not be allowed to happen, that the spirit and the letter of the Canada Health Act and what people hold to be true about medicare in this country will be upheld.
I want to ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what does the government intend to do about that legislation?