Mr. Speaker, this is what the foreign affairs minister had to say about private health care:
If some provinces want to experiment with private delivery options, my view is that as long as (provinces) respect the single, public payer, we should be examining these efforts and then compare notes between the provinces.
He went on to say:
I'm saying that the Canada Health Act does not preclude delivery of services by private elements as long as there is a single public payer.
This is a government member, a minister of the Prime Minister's own government, saying that we are going down that road. How does he explain this basic, blatant hypocrisy within his own government?