Mr. Chairman, what I am saying is simple. Yes, health care needs to be rethought for all the reasons that were mentioned and that I will not repeat.
However, who delivers health care? It is definitely not the federal government. The federal government is responsible for health services to aboriginal people and veterans, for drug licensing and for issues related to epidemics and quarantines.
In Canada, epidemics and quarantines are rare. The federal government has no other constitutional responsibility. I think that the provinces are the ones that should reflect on this, and they have done what they had to do.
What is expected of the federal government is that it honour its past commitments and restore the 50-50 funding formula for hospital insurance, which, unfortunately, it has not done since 1993.