Mr. Speaker, typical of the third party is the sentimentality, the rhetoric, the lack of any real fact but let us spew it anyway. Let us do the emotional dance on people.
I would like to ask the hon. member if he could give me clear statistical data which shows that the outcome in acute care is not one of the highest and best in the world, that people who clinically need care are not getting it.
We have to be very careful to clear the wood between need and want. Health care is not a marketplace commodity. The difference between what a patient needs for appropriate care and what a patient thinks he or she wants is very different.
We provide the best health care in the world that patients need. When we talk about people needing urgent care and not getting it I would like to ask the hon. member if he can give me clear examples of people who have increased mortality because they need acute care and do not get it. That, Mr. Speaker, is not true.