Mr. Speaker, the clouds over Canada's treasured health care system are getting darker.
Yesterday the Prime Minister tried to pretend that Liberal cuts to transfers have been fully restored. To quote from the Prime Minister himself, his words have no relation to reality. The truth is that the Liberal government still has not put back over $4 billion it took out of health care in 1995.
The result: two-tier Americanized health care continues to get a foothold in this country. Just look at Alberta where the truth squads are out using public funds to explain why public health care should be dismantled, and still the federal government stays silent.
As Alberta has said “silence means acceptance”. Canadians are saying to the government “Break the silence, find some backbone, contain the privatization virus before it contaminates health care across the country”.
With days to go before the federal budget, the government must act and must act now. It has one choice and perhaps only one chance: to put back all the money it took from health care in 1995. Take back Canada's public health care system.