Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Health. Today is World AIDS Day. The epidemic, far from being under control, has reached unexpected proportions. From 1982 to 1995, 15,000 cases of AIDS were reported in Canada. Over the next five years, another 15,000 cases will be identified. In the meantime, the minister does nothing but make empty speeches and is incapable of pledging to maintain the national AIDS strategy.
Given the terrible ravages of that disease, how can the minister justify that she is contemplating saving $40.7 million per year, at the expense of people living with AIDS, by giving up the national AIDS strategy? Such a decision would be shameful.