Mr. Speaker, I am pleased about the three points my hon. colleague brought up. People in the north not being able to access services as quickly is an important factor. We have to always be vigilant on that in our decision making. We should not look only at the cities or the large centres, which is convenient and easier. We must always be thinking about our constituents in the far north or the far south, wherever that may be.
The issue of waiting lists is also an absolutely valid point. Wherever we can we have to be constantly monitoring, constantly rechecking, constantly evaluating. What can we do better? I support the hon. member in bringing up these things because only through evaluating what we do now can we get better.
Regarding services in every hospital, I do not know that every service has to be available in every hospital. There are centres with several hospitals. From an economical point of view we may have to look at certain services in one hospital and others located in a hospital five kilometres away, perhaps heart and kidney machines or whatever.
I am in full concurrence with the three points the member brought up. Again I call on every member in the Chamber to keep looking at the points my colleague brought up. How do we make it better? How do we improve our health care? How do we save lives? How do we make a better quality of life in Canada?
We will do that not simply by feeding money into the system but by priorizing and by being very careful to hone our knowledge, to talk to other countries, doctors, nurses and caregivers who can tell us what we should be doing.
We have to make a call to all members that we need universal health care. We cannot start to erode this. I firmly believe in this principle.