Mr. Speaker, I want to remind the minister that he took the single biggest swipe at health care in the history of this country. Maybe the minister is in the black but unfortunately hospitals and health districts in province after province are deeply in the red. Given this accumulated debt imposed on the provinces by this radical surgery, can the minister still claim this new money is going into patient care, or is the money simply going into paying off past debts that he inflicted on these jurisdictions?
In the House of Commons on February 18th, 1999. See this statement in context.