Mr. Speaker, I have a grave message for this Liberal government and the health minister from a constituent.
I am going to read her words, expressing the pain suffered by her and her family:
I received tainted blood during the course of surgery in 1985 and I was notified in 1996, by the blood bank.
I have hepatitis C, and now understand the symptoms I have experienced for years.
Added to the physical problems is the emotional and mental anxiety of passing this disease on to my husband, my children and my grandchildren.
To only compensate victims between 1986 and 1990 is totally unfair. I battle the same health problems, the same outcome, possibly death and we are just as innocent as the “window” victims. Are we not just as deserving of compensation?
She ends by saying:
Are politics and dollars worth more than people and lives?
Shame on the health minister. Shame on the Prime Minister. Shame on all the wimp Liberal MPs.