Mr. Speaker, every member of the House at one time or another has experienced the compassion and skill of our Canadian nurses.
Today, International Nurses Day, we honour these hardworking women and men on the frontlines of health care. The best way to show our gratitude to the people who put care and compassion into health care is to improve their working conditions, hire more full time nurses, improve their training, reward them fairly for their work including pay equity, and, most of all, listen to and address their concerns about the quality of care in our beleaguered health care system.
If we take seriously our responsibility to do that, nurses in Canada will be properly recognized and rewarded for their critically important work, and all of us who use health care services in the country will be the beneficiaries.