Madam Speaker, I find it interesting that the member is talking about our doing our homework when he speaks about fighting for national standards, as if he were not a member of the government that could in fact put in national standards right now. Does he actually know that he is part of the government and that they could do that?
As for working with the provinces I am going to quote André Picard, a journalist who specializes in health care, who tweeted, “Can we please, in the name of all that is good and holy, stopped pretending there is some kind of constitutional impediment to improving care for elders”.
The federal government has a role to play in working with the provinces to make this happen. It has the work to do. It has a job to do and it has not done it. It has been decades.