Mr. Speaker, the minister should know we do not need his special staff in Manitoba to fight private hospitals. We are the only government in the country with strong legislation against private, for profit hospitals.
What we want to know is what he was sending his special staff there for with respect to the leadership campaign. The Prime Minister has read the riot act telling his ministers to get out there and do their jobs, yet here we have the minister doing the opposite.
It is important to ask, and the Minister of Veterans Affairs has suggested this, will the Prime Minister, or the Deputy Prime Minister today, announce an investigation into the events in Winnipeg this past weekend and the conduct of the health minister?