Mr. Speaker, earlier in question period the Minister of Health asked who said about SARS six weeks ago in Parliament that “we know that it is not a real threat”. If she will check Hansard for March 21, she will see that it was her parliamentary secretary who said that, responding to a question directed to her.
Does her parliamentary secretary speak for the minister, and if he was wrong in the information he gave the House, why did the minister not take the earliest opportunity to set the record straight?