The problem is that what the member is describing allows us to have a two-tiered health care system, and the Canada Health Act is very clear. Provinces are obligated to meet the requirements for public administration, comprehensiveness, universality, portability and accessibility; and the Canada Health Act is meaningless unless it is enforced.
Therefore, I would very much like to go back to my province and tell Albertans that while their Conservative provincial government has abandoned them and has chosen profit and privatization over health care, the federal government will protect them, but I am not hearing that from you. I am not hearing that you are going to be protecting the people of Alberta.
I am going to continue to stand in this House and ask for you to fight for our cherished public health care system, and demand that we protect it from people who seek to privatize it and create a two-tiered American-style system.