Mr. Speaker, I would like to quote a physician:
Governments which willing undertook the responsibility for funding medicare when there was political mileage to be gained are now reluctant to accept the concomitant financial burden. They try to weasel out of their promise.
The honest alternative would be for governments to confess to the public that they no longer can, or wish to fund medicare.
Those words should be eerily familiar to the parliamentary secretary. They are published words of hers in a 1990 B.C. journal of medicine.