Mr. Speaker, clearly the hon. member points out a real problem with the health care system. One is called cost drivers by those who analyze our health care system and that is the price of drugs. One of the reasons the price of drugs has gone up is because it has been turned over completely to the marketplace through the gutting of the generic drug legislation that we had up until the 1990s. What has happened to the price of drugs is a good indicator of what will happen to the price of health care if we turn it over to the private sector.
In the House of Commons on February 19th, 2002. See this statement in context.