Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Acadie—Bathurst for his question. I totally agree that we should not fall for what the Reform Party and the Progressive Conservative Party propose on this issue. We have to maintain a public system open to all Canadians.
As for the funding issue, I think we should question quite a number of things, but the main issue is that we must put the patient first. This is what is missing now. In Canada, there are too many technocrats, who deal with all sorts of things, and the patient is not the major concern.
When provinces get the opportunity to do whatever they can to make the patient the top priority and when the medical and nursing stakeholders return to the decision making circles within provincial governments, then I am sure we will have the necessary funds to provide adequate medical services to people.