Mr. Speaker, I listened to the Conservative member whom I respect very much in terms of his honest contribution to this debate and other issues. However we are obviously at fundamental odds philosophically and politically.
There is no question that on the one hand we are dealing with a party determined to seek progress through commercial interests and through aiding and abetting private needs in society, versus a philosophy epitomized by the NDP of putting the public good first.
How could the hon. colleague justify his pursuit of private control and international control over something as fundamental as access to necessary medications when many people are being left behind and not served by that kind of shortsighted policy?