Mr. Speaker, let us talk about women's health.
A recent Halifax Chronicle-Herald article detailed the case of Mary, a single mother who was waiting for orthopaedic surgery. During this time she has been unable to work because of severe pain. In Mary's words: ``They are all talking about prevention but the fact that I have not had surgery is an example of not using prevention''.
If this government is serious about prevention as a means of solving our current health care crisis, why does it continue to rely on rationing of essential health care with its huge cost in human suffering to shackle Canadians to an obsolete Canada Health Act?