Mr. Speaker, the NDP has asked consistently why the Liberals have allowed credit card hospitals to open in Alberta, credit card surgery to expand in B.C. and Quebec, and credit card MRIs to expand in Nova Scotia. Every time the Liberals' response has been that they support the Canada Health Act.
Yesterday was different. Yesterday the minister admitted that the act did not stop privatization, just as we have been saying all along.
If the act does not stop credit card medicine, why have the Liberals pretended for so many years and to the public that it does?