Mr. Speaker, listening to the speech by the member for York Centre is much like listening to most of the Conservatives' response to this debate. Rather than talking about income splitting, they talk about what has gone on over the last number of years in this place. We could have that as a separate debate, but that is not the motion before us today. We do not hear them talking about 14% of the wealthiest Canadians benefiting from this.
My friend asks me about my wife from time to time. We have gone through cancer in our home and the only thing that we had to pay for was parking at the hospital. That is a benefit of the system that we have in this country.
We go to fundraisers from time to time for children with leukemia and other diseases whose families do not have the resources to pay for medications that are not covered by our health system. Would it not be better to pay for that medication using some of that $3 billion that we are about to give to the wealthiest Canadians?