Mr. Speaker, we are still contributing a lot of money to those programs. It is the consensus in the House of Commons and in all the provinces, including a lot of the people living in Alberta, that medicare should be the same for the rich and the poor. That is clear in my mind.
I campaigned in Alberta for medicare and I will keep doing it because it is the one element in our social programs that the people believe in the most. They do not want to be subjected to the pressures that existed before: better services for the rich, second class services for the poor and the risk of losing everything when you are sick.
The best system is Canadian medicare. It is the same for the people of Alberta, the people of Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.