Mr. Speaker, the health minister says there was nothing that could have been done before 1986. That is categorically false. In 1981 one of the main directors of the Red Cross sent a memo around to the Red Cross saying that there was something specific that could be done and they did nothing.
There is no way to differentiate people who have hepatitis C. They are sick and many of them will die.
Why does the government not just admit that what it has done is wrong and compensate all the victims of hepatitis C? Why not?