Mr. Speaker, the government of Quebec has sole jurisdiction over the delivery of health care services to its people. The problem is not that services are inadequate, that services are not provided, or that we want to provide services instead of the province. The pharmaceutical industry is under federal jurisdiction, and we need to figure out how the Canadian government can ensure that the industry supplies drugs to people, governments and hospitals so that they can use them. That is the problem. It is not a matter of jurisdiction; it is a matter of production.
In the House of Commons on March 12th, 2012. See this statement in context.