Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister. Bill 11 is now in its final form in Alberta. The government is faced with a bill that has not been amended in the way that the federal Minister of Health requested. Many would say that Premier Klein has sentenced medicare to death. The only power in the country that can commute that sentence is the federal government acting decisively to make sure that bill 11 is not implemented.
I ask the Deputy Prime Minister, what does the federal government intend to do to make sure that medicare does not die on its watch?