Mr. Speaker, the hon. member would do well to be careful what he believes about what he reads in the newspapers.
Let me come to the point of his question because I think the hon. member misses the rationale.
The governments of Canada, all of them, have agreed that the appropriate rationale in terms of assisting those who were infected with hepatitis C is to look to that period when something could have been done to prevent it. That is the reason we will be providing, by way of an offer to settle the outstanding claims, over $1 billion for the benefit of over 22,000 Canadians who might have been kept healthy.