Mr. Speaker, the Conservative government continues to try and take credit for the kinds of things that take a long time to negotiate. The residential schools agreement was signed by Irwin Cotler and Andy Scott. The day I was sworn into cabinet we made sure that we put the hepatitis C agreement on the road and that those negotiations took place.
I am so saddened by the government's approach. In some of our prisons 50% of the inmates have hepatitis C. If the parliamentary secretary cared about people with hepatitis C you would be pushing to have needle exchanges in those prisons.
It is extraordinary that--