Mr. Speaker, actually, I am getting quite confused about what the provincial and federal jurisdictions are. I thought I knew what they were because I used to be a government minister. I thought I understood that very well when I went to federal-provincial-territorial meetings.
On the one hand I hear the provinces say that the federal government had a duty to warn them earlier. Obviously the provinces think that the federal government should be the one that warned them. Then the minister said that if she had known sooner, she would have warned the provinces sooner.
We are getting mixed messages. It is obvious that the minister believes it was her duty to inform the provinces about the problem, that it is her duty to find substitute drugs, and it is her duty to do a lot of things.
How can the minister believe she has the duty and then say it is a provincial jurisdiction in the next breath?