Madam Speaker, I will have to be brief. That was quite a discourse.
The response of the health minister in Quebec to the new proposals from the federal health minister is quite interesting to me. The health minister in Quebec said simply: "Health is a provincial responsibility. The federal government should keep its nose out of health". That is a proposal I strongly support.
Alberta, my province, says that Quebec has it right. We may disagree on whether or not there is any place in health care for a safety valve. We may disagree but surely we do not disagree that health is an important program. Surely this is not a partisan issue.