See, Madam Chair, that's the issue. There's a system in Quebec. The market failure is already addressed in Quebec. The rest of Canada doesn't know about Quebec's regime.
We have highly competent people just like you, Ms. Schirle. I've read some of your research papers. Such is life. What can I say? You come in and tell us that we should maybe look at what's being done in Quebec after the federal government has already imposed its system there.
For example, in the 1990s, the Liberal government merged the Canada health transfer and the Canada social transfer and then drastically reduced them, which prevented Quebec from moving toward ambulatory care. Let me quote what Marcel Massé, who was President of the Treasury Board of Canada at the time, said about Quebec's premier: “When Bouchard has to make cuts, those of us in Ottawa will be able to demonstrate that we have the means to preserve the future of social programs.”
The federal government was quite openly depriving Quebec's health care system of resources to play politics with people's health. Please explain which market failure the Liberals addressed back then.