Mr. Chair, I will not be using up all of my time. Whatever remaining time I have I would like to split with my colleague from Central Nova.
This is one of these interesting cases. It is very interesting seeing the member sitting in the Liberal cabinet. As a British Columbian I remember the many years when he was the premier of British Columbia and a cabinet minister in British Columbia and the scathing criticisms that he had for the Prime Minister and his actions as the finance minister. In fact, I remember him using some words about how he helped destroy British Columbia's health care system, how he left us in the dust and all these sorts of things.
Perhaps we could have an opportunity here for some revisionism. Would the health minister actually give his assessment of the health care system over the last 10 years? Virtually every indicator in terms of public health is it is getting worse. Private delivery has gone up. People are paying more with credit cards. Health care waiting lists are longer. The time for diagnosis is taking longer and longer. It is getting worse and worse.
When the minister was the premier of British Columbia he had scathing criticisms for the Prime Minister about health care. Now he is singing a different tune. As a British Columbian I want to know what happened and why he changed his mind.