Mr. Speaker, often in the House we are treated to or forced to endure from members of the party this member represents lectures about how they are the only folks who follow public opinion and the grassroots in the country.
I wonder if the member would comment on the fact that in today's newspaper we read that two-thirds of Canadians have a high level of support for the Romanow report. The company that did the survey said that “Canadians have formed a 'working consensus' in favour of Mr. Romanow's report”. Basically they have said that this is right prescription for medicare. The working consensus is widespread. It is a majority in every province and in every population group, and this also refers to income level and age.
Would the member in his answer also tell us where the efficiency and the sustainability are that he keeps alluding to in the private sector? Mr. Romanow said throughout the report that he could not find it.