Mr. Speaker, my question is for the health minister.
In 1993 the prime minister described the decision to purchase much needed maritime helicopters as a colossal waste of taxpayers' money. On national television he told Canadians “I will take my pen and I will write zero helicopters”.
Canadians know the government has wasted an obscene amount of their money to delay the purchase of helicopters that Canada needs.
Will the Minister of Health agree that the colossal waste of money cancelling the helicopter contract would have been better spent on health and education transfers to provinces?