Yes, Mr. Speaker, I am splitting my time with the member for Halifax West.
Problems are occurring. The minister and Canada have good standing at the World Health Organization and they should be talking about this as an urgent global problem. I can understand why the minister would not do that. Since she herself has not addressed the urgent problem in Canada, it probably would be a bit of a problem to ask other people to address a problem that she has not taken any steps to prevent or avert.
The federal government has in its power the ability to look at regulations, legislation and work with pharmacists, hospitals, provinces and manufacturers to build a system that we could strongly regulate and pay attention to the way the United States is doing. We could flag when there are going to be shortages, avert them and protect Canadians.
I would hope that, having learned a lesson, as the minister said, she will no longer drag her feet and she will take important mandatory steps to deal with this problem.