Mr. Speaker, it is not as if the government did not know about this legislation. It is not as if the government did not know what would be tabled yesterday.
Today is the day for the government to say more than quality health care will be a priority and that kind of rhetoric. What we want to know is will the government act to make sure that this does not happen? Otherwise it will be open to charges of the political equivalent of criminal negligence when it comes to protecting medicare in this country.