Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to add a voice to today's debate. It is a very important issue. I heard the member from the NDP party mention that he has never been in the legislature. I actually was an MPP for the Ontario legislature and I remember going to hospitals and talking to businesses on their views of Ontario's pharmacare. We had a plan. Unfortunately, the current provincial government decided to cancel it. It is just a shameful, shameful move.
I heard loud and clear from the parents of a child who was diagnosed with cancer and the drug payment every month was in the five digits. As MPs, we are making a decent amount of money, but even then, I would have been broke.
How can we expect an Ontario family or other Canadians to afford this kind of drug? I think national pharmacare is the way to go. I have no problem supporting today's motion.