Mr. Speaker, in an interview yesterday on the CBC, the Prime Minister suggested that medicare needs to be reduced and revert to meeting more basic needs.
The Liberal budget includes further reductions in federal transfers for health care and the intergovernmental affairs minister has apparently told the Quebec government that Canada's health laws need to be opened up. All of these things are completely opposite to the promises in the red book on health care.
My question is for the Prime Minister. Is there a federal plan to restructure health care and health care funding? If there is, why did the government choose to omit that plan from Monday's budget?