Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the member's remarks. What part of this two-tier system does the member not understand? It just baffles me. I am usually not at a loss for words and my friend knows that. Anybody who has ever known me, and my family certainly knows, I am usually not stumped for something to say, but I can hardly believe it. I can hardly believe that someone would say we get the same hospital care and there is no difference in it.
Somebody who says that the Gimble Eye Clinic is only for people who can afford it should know they have been doing this for years. People go to abortion clinics. The minister talks regularly and incessantly about facility fees and that she will not allow them in Alberta. What about the people going to freestanding abortion clinics right across the country? Is that a facility fee? Sure it is. Somebody talked earlier today about Quebec psychoanalysts being de-insured now. This goes on and on.
Core services and medically necessary services are things that are absolutely essential. These could be life saving devices or a hysterectomy, if there is cancer, all those types of things. If someone wants to get a nose job, if it is necessary, is affecting one's breathing, let us let the medical profession determine this. However, if one just wants to go in and get plastic surgery, a nose job, a face lift or whatever other lift one might want, those are the kinds of things that the medical community is quite capable of deciding which is core and which is not core.
Those procedures which are life saving are core. But it is not a government's responsibility to sit in the House of Commons and make those decisions. Let the medical profession do it.
There are very capable doctors on the government side as well as over here. Let them decide and then we will support that.