Mr. Speaker, let me say first, as I have said on many occasions and said again this morning, we are absolutely in favour of innovation to improve the public health care system.
However we stand against what bill 11 is all about. Bill 11 clearly intends to create a two tier health care system where those who can pay extra money can jump the queue and get preferred services and those who do not have that private wealth and deep pockets are not in a position to do so. That is why bill 11 is so lethal. It threatens the very heart of universality and the concept that people shall be eligible for equal treatment regardless of where they live or what their financial circumstances are.
That is a fundamental difference between those provinces. Let me say that the NDP provinces have backfilled, infilled dollar for dollar, the huge sum of money taken out of the public health care system by the federal government. Also the NDP provinces are standing up and fighting against this very serious threat to the total health and universality of access to services in the public not for profit health care system.