Mr. Speaker, the budget put out two days ago was the largest single investment that has been made by a federal government in health care in over two decades. In addition, the investments in health care research are the largest that have been made by a federal government in over two decades. Essentially what the government did in this budget was make it very clear that the federal party that created medicare is going to stand behind it for generations to come.
In the House of Commons on February 18th, 1999. See this statement in context.