Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague from Drummond for her excellent question and her very relevant comments.
In fact, government or at least cabinet members seem to be making conflicting speeches. They do not always say the same thing. The Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs is boasting throughout Canada that the government is decentralized, the most decentralized in the world. We can see that, as a political science student, he did not study very hard in his course on the decentralization of powers. It may even have been his worst subject. He is also telling us that his government totally abides by the Constitution.
The way this government is behaving is unacceptable. From the moment the federal government wants to sign an administrative agreement or to do something that would add to the five conditions agreed upon in the beginning by Canada and the provinces, at the time the health system was created, it is flouting the Constitution and mocking the provincial jurisdiction with respect to health and social services.
There is no question in my mind that the federal government infringes on our jurisdictions.