Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is right. I believe every one of the five principles are compromised in every one of the provinces and we do have a patchwork. The provinces are saying that they need a dispute mechanism on the Canada Health Act because the interpretation is being compromised in every area. We need to identify what the interpretation is so the provinces can get on with delivering health care instead of this adversarial approach that we have seen by this government.
In the House of Commons on February 19th, 2002. See this statement in context.