Mr. Speaker, this member should be asking questions of her sister governments in B.C. and Saskatchewan which have put a two tier health care system into place in those NDP provinces.
Let me clarify where the Reform Party stands on support for our health care system. First I will discuss 1993. This is verifiable. The member can look at our campaign literature. Even though we had more than a $42 billion deficit in this country and there was overspending, our party campaigned on zero cuts to health care and education. Zero cuts. It is in our literature.
In 1997, after this Liberal government had slashed support for health care, our campaign was on restoring funding to health care to the tune of $4 billion a year.
I do not know where this member gets the idea that there is anything less than the strongest support for health care from this party.
As far as the UA convention is concerned, that was not a Reform exercise. What those people did vote on were some strong principles in support of strong social programs which they said would be fleshed out in policy making sessions later on. I am sure this member would be welcome to participate in those united discussions to make sure good policies come out of them.