Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Health.
It costs an average of $100,000 to treat each Canadian suffering from AIDS. Every year, 2,000 new cases are diagnosed and the number of AIDS patients will have doubled by the year 2000.
Meanwhile, the government is penny-pinching by reducing the already inadequate budgets allocated to the National AIDS Strategy, whose objectives precisely include the prevention of this terrible disease.
Considering that an amount of $5 million was not spent and allowed to lapse last year, will the minister pledge to use all the moneys allocated to fight this disease, and will she display a greater sense of responsibility?