Mr. Chairman, we could continue the numbers game but I do not necessarily want to do that. We have exhausted that. He can throw his numbers and I can throw my numbers and we will go nowhere. I am more concerned with where we are going with health care into the 21st century. I am most frustrated with what I see as a system that is focused on itself. Over the last number of years anyone who wanted to be able to talk about health care as a politician was slain at the polls. Would the hon. member and I agree on one thing, that the system must change to be patient driven rather than system driven?
In the House of Commons on June 11th, 2002. See this statement in context.