Mr. Speaker, the position of the Ontario government is apparently that it wants to compensate the pre-1986 victims. We want them to. Victims rights groups say it should happen. The only holdout now is the federal government.
France and Japan had poison blood problems too. A lot of their senior bureaucrats were charged and convicted. Some of them ended up in jail.
In Canada we have a criminal investigation about the destruction of evidence. Now Dr. Brill-Edwards who, was a senior scientist in the health protection branch, has revealed the truth about why the Liberal government will not compensate for the pre-1986 period. The truth is that they knew about the evidence and failed to act—