Mr. Speaker, one year ago the Krever report on tainted blood was presented to Canadians. The expert on a Canadian health tragedy made some major recommendations, first a new system of blood governance. On this we have made progress. His second recommendation was clear lines of authority to bring about scientific advances in transfusion. Here there has also been some progress. Third, there should be compensation for all the victims of hepatitis C from dirty blood. On this subject there is absolute failure.
The decision to financially help only the few victims infected between 1986 and 1990 is based on legal and technical argument. Forgotten is the issue of compassion. During this anniversary year, 1,200 hepatitis C victims have died, their hope after reading the Krever report dashed, their families' dreams and wishes lost. I wear black today in memory of those victims and to remind this House that not one nickel of help has gone to the victims—