Mr. Speaker, I commend the hon. member from the Conservative Party for his fight when it came to the hepatitis C battles and his efforts in his province to fight for medicare as well. But there is a contradiction when the Tories talk about health care.
Recently at a byelection in St. John's West, which the NDP came very close to winning, the Conservative member said that one of the greatest things he will do is fight for health care. He will fight for the universal, not for profit health care system in this country. Yet his leader, Joe Clark, said that he supports bill 11 in Alberta. The problem is, does the member not agree there may be a contradiction in that? The member for St. John's West said he would fight for health care, yet the leader of the Conservative Party said he supports some sort of tinkering with the private system.
I believe that is some form of contradiction. I would like the member to comment on that.