Mr. Speaker, that is no comfort for those who were tainted and infected outside of that time. This health minister made a legal decision, an accounting decision, a budgetary decision. It had nothing to do with compassionate, fair, human decisions at all.
There are now two tiers of hepatitis C victims in this country. There are those whose life is valued and those who do not even seem to exist at all in the eyes of this minister.
How much money has the minister set aside to fight these victims in courts and lawsuits and how much has he spent on PR damage control?