Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Health will know that one of the concerns surrounding this billion dollars for new equipment for Canadians is that the money is allegedly being used not to buy the needed new equipment but to pay for existing orders, equipment that had already been ordered and would have come anyway. In other words, some of the billion dollars is not buying new equipment.
Could the minister could tell us if he could do anything to ensure that Canadians actually get a billion dollars worth of new equipment that they would not have had otherwise?