Mr. Speaker, I welcome the member's question. The point we are all trying to make in the House today is that the federal government is forcing the provinces to take extraordinary measures to deliver primary care. I believe the NDP health critic has spelled this out herself.
One of the difficulties is that the provinces deliver primary care but the federal government basically sets the rules and tells them how much money they are going to get to deliver the care. No premier is going to deny any citizen the care that he or she deserves. The federal government is forcing the provinces into a corner to do the very thing they do not want to do. Mike Harris and Premier Klein say they do not want to do this. The Liberals want to pretend they invented health care. When health care was invented in this country it was a 50:50 equation.