Mr. Speaker, we categorically oppose two tier medicine.
We have gone far beyond what the NDP itself has been calling for. Before the budget it called for only $2 billion to be put back into health care. We are providing $11.5 billion of which $3.5 billion can be drawn on right now in addition to $1.4 billion directly from the federal government.
No wonder Roy Romanow, the NDP Premier of Saskatchewan, said about the budget “I am very pleased and I think the federal government should be congratulated”.