Mr. Speaker, the hepatitis C issue has been kind of tough on the Liberal government.
We went through, with Krever, shredded documents. We went through fighting in court. We went through a withholding of cabinet proceedings.
Finally, when we got the Krever presentation, I thought the battle was over. But the government decided to compensate only a small proportion of the victims. It says it is because the ALT test was not available, available to me in 1970 in my practice for hepatitis. It was not available because federal regulators chose not to use it for that purpose. The decision was a decision made by regulators.
For the victims, all they want is fairness and those victims are going to go to every single event this summer of Liberal politicians, to the parades, to the ribbon cuttings, to the speeches, everything that they do. They are going to wave a little flag that says “hepatitis C, don't forget us”.
I would not want to be in that position. I would not want to go through the long hot summer of the Liberals on hepatitis—