Mr. Speaker, the minister says when should the government pay. The answer is when the government is responsible.
We have here a minister who is hanging on to this legal argument as though it were a thread, and that is all he has. The truth of the matter is insurance pays for medical mishaps, but this was no accident. There was incompetence and negligence on behalf of the federal regulators.
Will the minister just acknowledge that this was not a medical accident?