Madam Speaker, I thank the member for Mirabel for his question and welcome him to the House.
In fact, health care is a shared jurisdiction between the two levels of government. I could give a number of examples, the first being the Canada Health Act, which divides the health care powers and allocates some to the federal government.
I can also highlight the Tobacco Control Act, which allows the federal government to enact regulations that deal with health and has been upheld in litigation cases as properly falling under the federal health care jurisdiction.
Of course, we would also recognize the fact that the federal government, at the Canadian level, has jurisdiction over health care matters with respect to first nations populations.
Therefore, the member's categorization is unfortunately incorrect. The federal government does have shared jurisdiction over health.