Mr. Speaker, we have an agreement with the provinces and I have heard no province say it is abandoning that agreement.
The agreement calls on both levels of government to contribute a sum of money to be offered to people who were harmed when it could have been prevented.
Let us remember the basis of this. Money or damages or cash payments are being offered to people who were harmed when it could have been prevented. That is what is at issue here. For those who were infected before when it could not have been prevented, we are taking a different approach.
The Canadian people support that and I invite the member and his colleagues to join with us in our ambitious agenda to strengthen medicare to provide—