Mr. Speaker, I I am a little disappointed that the member continues to point fingers and use the rhetoric of the death of the health care system, the advancing of a two tier health care system, et cetera.
This is the kind of rhetoric Canadians do not want to hear. The issues at hand are the fact that the provinces, the territories and the federal government today have resolved all the bickering and have come up with a plan to assure all Canadians about our secure, sustainable health care system and that the funding will be there.
The member will also know that the responsibilities of the federal government are defined in that they are transfers for hospitals and for doctor fees, which is acute care, not the whole health care system, so there is some joint responsibility with regard to funding. On the member's numbers of $6 billion, et cetera, we are talking about health but now she rolls in post-secondary education and social programs and starts to muddy the waters. She is talking only about cash and not about tax points.
This is all the stuff Canadians want to stop hearing about. What they want to start hearing is that all levels of government are working together to ensure that Canada's health care system and the principles of the Canada Health Act continue to be supported and sustained for a long time to come.
I have a question for the member regarding some derogatory comments she made about report cards, et cetera. Canadians do want accountability. Yesterday I received the report of the advisory council on health infrastructure. One of its principal recommendations in the final report was to develop the analyses and the information gathering to be able to do report cards for Canadians so that Canadians will know how to assess the quality and the efficiency of our health care system.
Is the member saying reporting and being accountable to Canadians by some mechanism which may be referred to as report cards is inappropriate?