Madam Speaker, I am going to start by correcting the falsehoods.
I encourage the member to find one example where I have not voted to increase health care transfers. When I was in government, we increased health care transfers by 70% because of Stephen Harper's courageous leadership and strong books. The NDP voted against those increases. Now, they propose a pharmacare scheme that would ban union workers from keeping their private pharmacare plans. Unions have fought too hard and too long for their drug plans to have the NDP ban what it calls a “single-payer” system, which necessitates banning any non-government plan.
When I was on the floor of Stelco, the men and women there said they want to keep the plan that they fought for. I told them that I will never allow the NDP to ban their private drug plans and impose an inferior government plan that does not work.