Mr. Speaker, my question is for my colleague who sits on the same committee as I.
In 1984, when the then Minister of Health, Monique Bégin, tabled the Canada health legislation in this parliament, she did so in a rather unconstitutional way.
We know that, regarding the division of powers, the federal government has power over drug certification, quarantine, Indians and national defence. The Minister of Health used the federal spending power to impose standards that would normally never have seen the light of day under a strict division of powers.
Does the Canadian Alliance member not think that the principles put forward in the Canada Health Act infringe somewhat upon provincial prerogatives and go against his constitutional agenda?