Mr. Speaker, the Official Opposition's thoughtless allegations are serious indeed. First, the incident in question occurred five years ago at Sainte-Justine Hospital, in Montreal.
According to the hospital, two children out of fifty or so had a mild allergic reaction to the drug. Both were successfully treated and their transplanted kidneys were not rejected. Today, these two children are healthy. Justine Lacoste-Beaubien, who founded Saint-Justine Hospital in 1907, must have turned over in her grave hearing the Bloc talk in such a way about an institution she founded to save the lives of children in Quebec.
I am responsible to Canadians for health, Mr. Speaker, and the Official Opposition has responsibility in that area as well. It should use some of its research budget to check its facts before alarming the Canadian public needlessly. If they want to launch a political attack on me, that is one thing, but they should not use children to do so.