Mr. Speaker, I will try again to ask a question in French. It may be possible that members of the Bloc did not understand the question the first time.
We, in the NDP, totally agree with the spirit of this motion, which states that we should condemn the government for withdrawing from health care funding, and no longer shouldering more than 14% of the costs of health care. We totally agree with that position.
The problem for us lies with the other part of the motion.
In particular, the part that says to blame the government:
--for attempting to invade provincial areas of jurisdiction by using the preliminary report by the Romanow Commission to impose its own vision of health care.
We have a problem with that part of the motion because it raises two questionable ideas. The first questionable part of the motion is that the Romanow commission sets forth a particular direction in terms of federal-provincial jurisdiction when, as we talked about earlier, the Romanow interim report puts all options on the table and suggests that Canadians, including Quebecers, ought to express their views about the future of our health care system.
The other questionable part of the motion is that it suggests there is some vision being imposed by the federal government on the country. Our question today has been what vision? Where? That is the problem. We do not see a vision. It is sitting back letting our system become privatized, creating a patchwork of health care systems across the country without any sense of direction or plan for the future.
Is it not the case that Quebecers would, as would all Canadians, be concerned about having a say in terms of the future of our health care system, that they would want to see an end to federal-provincial feuding and that they would want to seek some co-operative approach that would lead us to solutions of the very problems that are emerging today?
That is the question I am putting to my colleague.