Madam Speaker, I will not say this very often, particularly with the official opposition, but I must say that I respect this individual member for Macleod as a physician. I respect him as a member of parliament and I appreciate the comments he made today.
Being a member of the medical profession, this member will recognize that there are a number of stakeholders within the health care field: the doctors in his profession, the nurses in the nursing profession and the employees in administration.
I ask the member, who is very close to the situation, how other members of his fraternity, those in the medical profession, feel about sustainable funding? I think I already know that answer.
I would also like him to answer a question about what his membership in the fraternity think about an expansion of the services that he talked about in bill 11 in the province of Alberta. Are they supportive or are they, like most members of society today, split on that particular issue?