Madam Speaker, it is a gross misrepresentation of the NDP position to suggest that somehow we are happy with the status quo whereby the federal government contributes so little on a percentage basis to overall spending on health care.
I just finished saying, before the member rose, how unhappy we were with the fact that the federal government was starving medicare to death. I do not know whether the hon. member did not hear me or did not understand me, but we are not happy with the current situation.
However we think the solution is not to hand the ball over to the provinces. The solution is to have the federal government live up to its responsibilities. That would be a lot better from our point of view.