If we fail to get this right, Mr. Lewis, would you be in favour of the Canadian government simply providing and footing the bill to pay for these drugs? Frankly, if we can't get through the rhetoric, the battles, and the obfuscation that's going on to contain a disease that knows no boundaries in terms of its decimation of human beings and innocent individuals, do you believe the federal government should be duty-bound then to cut a bloody cheque?
On April 18th, 2007. See this statement in context.