Mr. Speaker, nearly 200,000 Canadians are on waiting lists and now with this threatened nurses strike in B.C. thousands more must wait.
The government seems to think that sick people and Canadians are fooled by the argument that if $7 billion is taken out of the transfers and $2 billion put back somehow the health care users are ahead. This is a shell game that the public simply does not accept any more.
Is it not true that the government's real health care legacy is hospital closures, waiting lists, strikes and now a shortage of both doctors and nurses?