Mr. Chair, that is absolutely unfair and untrue. The minister should be completely ashamed of himself for making remarks like that. We know what the government has done on this issue. It has stonewalled the House. Compassion is simply not part of the equation. The Liberals made a calculation. They miscalculated. They were told from 1998 forward, even by Justice Krever, that they were making a mistake not to compensate all victims. For the minister to suggest otherwise is not even reasonable. It is completely unfair.
The onus, the responsibility for this fund is clearly at the doorstep of the government. In my opinion, the minister should divorce himself from those kinds of partisan remarks. It is the responsibility of the opposition in the House to keep the government responsible, make it responsible and force it to do the right thing.
Why will the minister not stand in his place and simply do the right thing, admit his mistake, and admit the mistake that the government made in 1998 with the original package in compensating only some victims and not all the victims, completely ignoring Justice Krever?