Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Health.
Four years ago his leader stood in the House and asked the Conservative government why it always sided with the multinationals instead of with the people who need drugs.
In the last election the government promised national pharmacare based on its own forum recommendations for a universal single payer drug plan. This is in question with the government once again cosying up to the big brand name drug companies, and I might add with a little pressure from the Reform Party.
Today I put the same question that his leader asked on April 1, 1993. Will the government commit today to a universal national drug—