Now we are getting to the heart of it, Mr. Speaker. What the hon. member is suggesting is that a dollar taken away from the hands of a public health care institution is far better served put in the hands of someone who is of a higher income bracket. Any tax cuts that occur take away funds from public institutions and put them in the hands of probably those who need them the least.
Tax cuts are important but they have to be focused. They have to be directed at the people who need them the most. Low income and middle income Canadian families are the people who deserve the tax breaks the most. Let us put it in perspective. What the hon. member is suggesting is that if we take that tax dollar, we reduce the ability of the Government of Canada and the individual provincial governments to provide those services and we put it in the hands of the rich. The rich quite frankly will be able to afford those health care services when they go on the free market to buy them. That is not universal health care. It is not universal health care and it is not a Canadian health care system.
We have one tier medicine where everybody, regardless of income level, regardless of their location of residence have equal access to the same medical services. That is something the Reform Party does not agree with. They cannot stand it—