Mr. Speaker, I remind the hon. member that when the provinces signed on to the medical system it was supposed to be a 50:50 proposition. Now we are down the member says 9% but I will give him the benefit of the doubt and say 13% of federal financing.
My question pertains more to what the government is doing in regard to the hepatitis C victims. The government has allowed the victims to sit with absolutely no compensation at all. Some of these people are not capable of working. They are sick. Some are close to dying and yet the government has seen fit to only pay the lawyers and not the victims.
I would like to know, since the member is in the financial end of this, how much interest is he saving by not paying the victims?