Sunset is a passive activity. You can choose not to sunset programs, and things like the primary health care transition fund, which people had thought was doing good work, you chose to let sunset. These are ministerial decisions, and I don't think the bureaucratese is very helpful to Canadians as to why this government would be choosing to reduce the budget for health and health care for Canadians over the next five years in what they are able to do within the whole of the health portfolio, but particularly in the area of public health in terms of what we know is the number one goal of medicare, which is to keep people well, and not to patch them up once they get sick. This is a shared responsibility. How on earth can you defend the money going down?
On May 15th, 2008. See this statement in context.