Mr. Speaker, one of the things that I am very impressed with, being part of this as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health, is how well our minister, our Prime Minister, and our government have taken a lead with this very important health issue.
Not only have we taken a lead, but we have worked collaboratively. As members heard in the speech by the minister earlier, we were one of the first when Mexico found out that it had this issue in its country. The Mexicans came to us. They came to Canada. They came to the Canadian officials.
I am really a little sick and tired of the opposition running down Canada's public health system and running down the Canadian health officials, who I know personally have been working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to implement our rollout.
In 2006, we were the government that put in the pandemic plan, not like the previous government under SARS in which we know there was no plan and it handled it horribly.
Our minister and our officials are the envy of the world. As I said earlier, I was in Washington and they praised Canada. It is unfortunate that sometimes we have to go outside our country to get kudos when they are deserved. Unfortunately, all the opposition can do is run down our health care system and our good officials who are doing good work.