Mr. Speaker, the member's government at every opportunity has hindered the provinces from being creative in how they deliver health care. It is a province's mandate to do that. The government has gone so far as to hold back transfer payments with all kinds of threats.
What would be wrong with letting my home province of Alberta for example try some alternative methods of delivering health care to see if they work? If it is as the member has said, that he does not think it will work, then let us call Alberta's bluff and let Alberta have a go at it and see how it does.
I would also like the member to comment on the fact that many in the country believe that our health care system is not sustainable as it exists. If we cannot sustain the services that we are presently supplying, how are we ever going to expand those services into other areas if we cannot come up with more creative ways of delivering health care?