Mr. Speaker, this is health care platform progress note number two on the state of our health care.
In my hometown of Victoria 160 people are on waiting lists for radiation therapy. Of those people, 60 per cent are there for breast cancer, 40 per cent are there for prostate cancer. The wait with respect to breast cancer can be as long as 14 weeks. The response of the provincial government has been to close down the expansion of the cancer clinic. As well it is sending people to the United States.
In British Columbia waiting lists for cardiac surgery went from 385 in March to 500 in December.
This government has just put $300 million into health care after ripping out and eviscerating $7 billion in transfer payments to the provinces.
It is this political party that continues to label itself the white knight that pretends to be there for the sick, the poor and the dispossessed, but the only white knight-