Mr. Speaker, another study, this one by a former director to the Auditor General, shows that private for profit hospitals actually end up costing taxpayers more. It simply confirms that economics works the same in Canada as it does in Britain, Australia and anywhere else that private for profit and public partnerships have been tried.
Still Senator Kirby is out pushing his open door to profit approach.
Will the federal government commit to the evidence based Romanow solution and not the costly Kirby recipe for disaster?