Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his question.
I absolutely agree with the member. All sorts of areas have to be looked at, evaluated and tough decisions have to be made. That is what we are doing. That is what the budget which was tabled here not so long ago was all about. That is why people in every constituency across the country are feeling the pinch. It is because we have made some of the toughest fiscal decisions made by a government, at least in the last quarter century.
The difference comes in this way. I was in a provincial legislature that supported health reform. We said that we have to get costs down in health care. We advocated very strongly and the health care professionals worked very hard to do exactly that.
Procedures which used to cause a week or 10-day stay in the local hospital near me are now done in one night. Many are done on an out patient basis. All sorts of reorganizations have been undertaken in order to reduce costs, be more efficient, deliver better service, faster and cheaper. However, we have not made the reform of saying one person can have health care but another cannot. That is the difference in the Reform approach and what we are doing.
Change is a fact of life. There can always be change. There can always be improvement. We can always do things differently. But as Canadians we made a commitment that we would be in this together. That is the difference.