Madam Speaker, the minister has gone on at great length to talk about our proposal for a definition of core essential issues. She said that this was some kind of nefarious scheme that had never been thought of or heard of in Canada before.
Could the minister explain when the Prime Minister said shortly after the budget on the Peter Gzowski program that we must return more to basics in our health care system? That is not an exact quote but very close to an exact quote.
Could the Minister of Health explain what the Prime Minister was referring to when he said that we were trying to do too much with our public funding? That is not a question the minister should be able to dance around and avoid. It is a fairly straightforward question.