Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Hochelaga—Maisonneuve for his excellent question.
We have here, today, a situation quite out of the ordinary, with the Bloc Quebecois promoting a very broad consensus that has been reached not only in Quebec. As I said earlier, the PQ government, along with the Liberal opposition and the ADQ opposition, supports the position we are taking today, as do the premiers of all the provinces and territories.
This raises the issue of knowing how is it that a government which claims to be sensitive to the needs of ordinary people has totally ignored the repeated pleas of a vast majority of Quebecers and Canadians, if not all of them, to start reinvesting right away in the health care system which is sinking.
This is also the question I am putting to my colleagues opposite. How can they remain insensitive to the cries and pleas of their constituents who argue that it is about time Ottawa restored funding in health care sector to at least the 1994 level?