Mr. Speaker, that is an irrelevant answer to a question that was never asked.
The real arguments come from the health minister. He keeps on repeating that compensating hepatitis C victims would open up the legal floodgates to everyone, but that argument is also false.
Contracting hepatitis C from tainted blood was not some unavoidable accident. What we are talking about is compensating people who became ill because of proven government negligence.
I ask again, in the name of compassion and fairness, why will the government not allow the MPs to vote for these victims?