Mr. Speaker, the member lauds the Canada Health Act. Now she ought to read it. If she does, she will find that we have already in the Canada Health Act the principles and the rules we need to safeguard medicare. What this government has said consistently and unconditionally is that we will use the powers in the Canada Health Act to protect the principles in the Canada Health Act. That is not true just in Alberta, that is true across the country.
In the House of Commons on May 18th, 2000. See this statement in context.