Mr. Speaker, if the Leader of the Opposition can establish clearly when negligence started, he knows that we would take responsibility. We said that we were responsible from 1986 because we could have tested for the hepatitis C virus at that time. But the government of the day did not use the tests that were available in 1986. Apparently before 1986 there was no negligence because there was no way for the government to find out.
In the House of Commons on May 5th, 1998. See this statement in context.