Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member of the Bloc Quebecois for his question. I am very pleased to hear him say that he came to the same conclusion as I did, in that he agrees with the five principles I listed earlier.
There is a real problem with underfunding but it lies in the fact that social and health programs are provincially administered in Canada. Every province made its own choices. It is now up to these provinces to make new choices to cut their costs within the health system as we know it.
In certain parts of the country, provinces have allowed non- essential services to be provided to their citizens. I think that the ball is in the court of the provinces now.