Madam Speaker, bill 11 contains an explanation of enhanced medical services. As a medical professional, does the member think it is reasonable that a government, which is as bent on privatization and thereby can delist services and move more and more services into the private sector, should be the same body that can decide what is an enhanced medical service? Does the hon. member think there should be some professional body that includes Canadians which would determine what is an enhanced medical service?
Can the member not tell us that there is an incredible need for accountability in the health care system? We are going to have to move into it before we can throw more money at it. It is clear with the amount of savings that Doug Angus and the health economists have said are already in the system at $7 billion a year that there has to be some ability to address the unnecessary surgery, unnecessary lab tests, unnecessary visits to the doctor in the present system. We must begin to deal with the accountability in the system before people can cry about underfunding.