Mr. Speaker, that is very interesting. This is what the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence had to say:
To save our medical system, we must embrace new ideas, such as allowing a separate, parallel, private system to augment and enhance our public system.
The Supreme Court said that as a result of wait lists, patients in Canada are dying. The Liberal government's cuts caused the crisis in health care, the loss of doctors and nurses, and the growth of private health care clinics. Wait times doubled on the Prime Minister's watch.
Did the Prime Minister not foresee the growth in private health care as a result of his cuts or is it, as Sheila Copps said recently, that the Prime Minister's hidden agenda was to have a two tier health care system?