Mr. Speaker, three weeks later and still the message from the Minister of Health to the provinces and territories is that they are on their own and they will have to figure out how to get along without isotopes.
All across Canada patients are waiting. Do they have cancer? Has the cancer spread? Is their chest pain really heart disease?
Marilyn Williams, the director of diagnostic imaging at Bluewater Health Foundation in Sarnia, said that her hospital is only able to perform about half the diagnostic tests it would normally do, with a total daily supply down to 10%.
Where is the government's plan to get worried patients the tests they need?