Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the hon. member for Red Deer could give us his views on how this research should be managed.
We have a problem in the short term. Everyone agrees that the provinces do not have the resources they need to deliver health care, but our health problems require immediate solutions. The research institutes that the government wants to set up and support could pursue other objectives in the longer term. Indeed, the health of people requires long term planning.
I would like to know how the hon. member suggests this problem might be resolved? Does he think that investing in research is an immediate solution? If so, how? If not, how does he think the most urgent problems could be resolved in the short term, while ensuring that the health of all Canadian and Quebec taxpayers will be protected in the long term, this time by emphasizing prevention?
Could the hon. member tell us how he thinks these two objectives might be reconciled?