Mr. Speaker, I make no attempt whatever to say there is only one Liberal in the House.
The issue concerns everybody in opposition. This is not something where the government can sweep it under the table and hope it goes away. It will just not go away. It has to learn that absence does not make the parliamentary heart grow fonder. In fact it is just the opposite.
The other issue my colleague asked about was paying the bills for this. This is ironic. Why is it victims across the country, whether it is hepatitis C victims, victims of crime or victims of virtually everything in our society, end up footing the bill and fighting for rights the government has arbitrarily given to others? The cost will not only be enormous personally for some of these people. There will be the costs to government, court costs, judicial costs and the cost of legal aid lawyers. It will go on and on for years. Yet the government steadfastly says that is okay, that it is their problem and not its problem. It is a sad case for victims of hepatitis C.