Madam Speaker, having lived for the first 35 years of my life in the United States, I am fairly familiar with its medical system. With 90% of my relatives living there, I am quite familiar with what is happening in their lives in terms of the medical system.
I assure the member, after taking a careful look at the proposals from Ralph Klein—and I hope that the NDP will do the same—that his proposals are a far cry from being what they have in the United States. They are not that comparable. I wish the NDP would take a little closer look at it.
We all know that the Liberal government was responsible for causing this dilemma in the first place. There is no way that it will restore the money that it deliberately took out of health care since 1993. However, government spending is phenomenal in so many areas. If the health minister needs money, the government will have to stop some of the silly spending that is going on, some that I know the NDP approve of.
It is nice to do little things for culture and for art, but when we get down to the necessities of life, what would she request the government do in terms of not spending money? What areas would she like to see cut out in order to provide more money for health care?