Mr. Speaker, our position is that we support a universal, accessible, publicly administered health care system that is administered by the provinces with national standards agreed on by the provinces in a co-operative fashion.
What we are opposed to is the kind of multi-tier health care system that governments like this federal Liberal government and the NDP governments in Saskatchewan and British Columbia have given us which have forced Canadians on to these waiting lists in such a way that if they want to get their critical care tended to they now feel they have to take their private dollars and go to private clinics in the United States.
That is wrong. That kind of two tier NDP style health care should come to an end by properly protecting the public system.