Madam Speaker, it was the vision of Tommy Douglas that every Canadian would have a universal and free health care system.
If we were to rely on provinces to administer that health care, dental care and pharmacare, we would see what is happening in Conservative provinces in the country where people are being denied. In Alberta, they said no dental care. In Ontario, they have done a terrible job of keeping health care public. They are privatizing our health care.
Canadians deserve better than what Conservative governments and these provincial Conservative governments are offering.