Minister, you're talking about two weeks of failure in your dental care plan, but that's not true. On November 1, people were waiting for your service and thought they would have access to it. However, today is December 12. When you do the math, you see that the delay is one month and 11 days.
Your plan seems to have been written on the back of a napkin or envelope. That's actually what we were challenging, not the principle of access to dental care along with greater coverage.
However, your plan has been poorly explained, and people think that dental care is free. When people go to the dentist, they realize that they have to pay the difference between the dentist's rate and the fees covered by the plan. From what I hear from various constituency offices, the fee schedule for dentists has practically doubled.
Why didn't you take the time to sit down with the dentists to negotiate a fee schedule? Right now, people find themselves in a humiliating position when they don't have the money to pay for their care. They are told that, ultimately, the care isn't free and that they have to pay the difference.
How are you going to manage that? People are using the government portion as a gift card.