Canadians are very passionate. Bless them for it.
Revenue overrides Canada's sovereignty in health care. My name is Gerald Parker. I am the executive director of the Institute of Canadian Justice. We have been called the haz-mat unit for public health—failed public health, public safety, and public interest in Canada. Our colleagues are the best and the brightest. We very much love everyone in this country, and particularly the most vulnerable.
In 2016, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, trickle-down economics has failed. Massive offshore tax evasion is rampant, and public coffers continue to be plundered by apparent piracy. The corporate interests have failed the public interest and act solely in self-interest. Why would anyone give the fox a virtually unfettered reign? It is dangerous and simply a cop-out, a relinquishment with deadly and dangerous results, and unending litigation to aid and abet private profiteers. The revenue overrides and refusal of common sense must end. Canada cannot afford to put trust in and protect less-than-moral interests. The public interest is paramount. This is Canada, and it's 2016.
Let's talk specifically about the TPP on the sustainability of health care and its foundational cornerstone of the societal revolution in Canada. Without health, we have nothing. As per the Canadian Medical Association Journal's report on prescription adherence in Canada, already 60% of vulnerable people take 50% of their medication due to hashtag, cat food, prescriptions, or parking decisions. This is a huge societal cost, exacerbated by hyperextended pharmaceutical products, a manufactured opioid pandemic, and medical extortion of our dying and chronically ill Canadians—your parents, our children. This is not about us or them. This mentality must end. It is sickening...as a nation and as a world.
The TPP is a cancer upon sustainable public health. The TPP will campaign and drive health care sustainability into the ground. For what? Corporate offshore profits...and eventually refuse and concoct rackets, just like this, to avoid paying their way.
If I may, just 10 seconds....