Mr. Speaker, this past week Reform members have had the unbelievable gall to suggest in the House that the government is less than fully committed to Canada's publicly funded health care system. Reform must be thinking of its own pathetic history when it comes to health care.
Let us examine for a quick moment the record to see which party has been demanding that Canada adopt the two tier American style commercialized health care system. Which party's most recent policy book calls for “the complete rearrangement of the costs of health care insurance, such as basic deductibles, medisave accounts, choice of insurance coverage, and complete coverage for catastrophic illness”? Reform of course. Which party's leader has said that “we want to remove those sections of the Canada Health Act that deny provinces the flexibility to require some Canadians to pay at least a portion of their health costs”? Reform.