Mr. Speaker, the minister's answer once again reflects a blindness to reality, to the facts.
Let me focus on the breakdown of the system. Two examples may suffice. In my home province of British Columbia it takes over seven weeks, almost two months, to get an appointment with a specialist. It takes 27 weeks on average to receive cardiovascular surgery, almost seven months.
When will the minister show that she values the well-being and the lives of Canadians above her blind loyalty to outdated legislation? When will the minister first admit and then act on an obviously unsustainable health care system?