Mr. Speaker, I will read for members from the election platform of the Conservative Party. It is from the press conference of December 5, 2005. It stated:
The concept of the Guarantee is that patients must be able to receive treatment in a medically acceptable maximum time for a publicly insured service. If this [service] is not available in their own area, they must be given the option of receiving treatment at another hospital or clinic, even outside of their home province.
It appears that the government made a promise during the campaign and in the throne speech, a promise which says that notwithstanding the delivery of the service, there is this other problem about how if it cannot be delivered there, there is an additional cost to transport not only the patients but their families to some other clinic or institution in another place in their province, to another province or even to the United States.
That costs new money, I believe. I wonder if the member could advise the House as to whether or not her party believes that this guarantee that was promised does in fact require additional funding that should go to the provinces, including Quebec, to meet that promise.