Mr. Speaker, I was interested in the last few remarks made by the member opposite when she said: "Let the doctors decide. Let the physicians decide. Let the people who are responsible for delivering the care decide".
That is exactly what we do. That is exactly what the Canada Health Act does. Her proposal would put a bureaucrat in their place. There would be a schedule or a list decided by someone other than the physician, someone other than the person who is providing the care. That is one reason why we do not support the proposal that party brought forward today.
I want to step back a little bit and look at exactly what the Reform Party is saying today. The members sat down, thought this out and put it into their political planning that they would have this debate today. They stood up and put forward a motion which states:
That this House recognize that since the inception of our national health care system the federal share of funding for health care in Canada has fallen from 50 per cent to 23 per cent and therefore the House urges the government to consult with the provinces and other stakeholders to determine core services to be completely funded by the federal and provincial governments and non-core services where private insurance and the benefactors of the services might play a supplementary role.