Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Health.
This morning, a coalition of organizations, including the Canadian Hemophilia Society, renewed its request for access to the documents the Krever commission wishes to examine. These documents, including draft regulations on blood products, go back to 1984, when the Liberal Party was in power and the current Prime Minister was Deputy Prime Minister. According to testimony given by certain senior health officials, the draft regulations were blocked at the highest level.
How can the minister explain his stubborn refusal not to table these documents, unless it is because their publication could be embarrassing to the present government?