Madam Speaker, no, and what I also do not plan to do is cut health care the way the Liberals did in the preceding years, prior to Conservatives coming in and rebuilding the public health care system. They slashed health care by $20 billion. We increased it by 70% to heal the pain and damage. Furthermore, I will bring in a blue seal standard so that our brilliant 20,000 immigrant doctors and 32,000 immigrant nurses can get licensed, get to work and reduce waiting lists.
Finally, I will reject the radical plan for a “single-payer” drug plan, which is right in the law. By definition, that means all private plans must be banned under the Liberal-NDP agenda, which they lay out in their wording in their pharmacare bill. They want to keep Canadians from having a private drug plan with the hope and the promise that, one day, they might get a government plan like the government housing plan, which doubled their housing costs; the school food program, which has not delivered a single meal in two years; or the gun plan, which spent $67 million without recovering a single gun. These people cannot be trusted to run a lemonade stand, let alone a drug plan. I will protect Canadians' right to have a private drug plan so that they have the medication they need when they go to the drug store.