Mr. Speaker, the federal government has established a shared-cost program with the provinces for the victims of tainted blood. But, when it comes to the cost to the provinces of looking after all victims, the Minister of Health would have us believe that the special $300 million contribution is not a new shared-cost program.
Why is the federal government using semantics to deny Quebec its fair share of this new shared-cost program, as it promised to do in the 1996 throne speech?