Mr. Chair, the minister perhaps has selective amnesia about the past. I would invite him to check the Hansard for what he said in the B.C. legislature when he was premier and when he was attorney general.
If the Liberal Party is so committed to public health care, I am curious about a document, “A Platform for British Columbia” which the minister ran on when he was a candidate in the past campaign.
Also, there is a member of the Privy Council of the government sitting in cabinet and his constituency is Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca. As a Liberal member of Parliament and as a Liberal member of the cabinet he has written that all five pillars of the Canada Health Act are a joke, that the government should walk away from it, that there should be a private parallel public system. He is in the Liberal government.
I think people on this side, physicians and all Canadians across this country are getting sick and tired of the sanctimonious hypocrisy that comes from the Liberal Party that campaigns with people like Keith Martin who believes in destroying our public health insurance system and this--