Health  Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Scarborough—Agincourt for her continued advocacy. She knows all too well, as do I and every member of the House, that so few of us get to make it through life without being touched by cancer. It is imperative that we do all that we can

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, replacing science with slogans and replacing research and evidence with talking points will not fix the problem. There is not a person in the House who is not ripped apart when we watch somebody lose a loved one to this crisis, but to meet it with partisanship, to me

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, around the world, opioid deaths are taking so many lives. The only way we can rise to meet that moment is with truth and evidence and not by inflaming, through spreading false information, the situation. I would ask the member opposite, instead of trying to seek op

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, I would ask clearly what evidence the Conservatives are basing their decisions on. The answer to that question—

Dental Care  Mr. Speaker, it is great news, because, unlike the member opposite, we are working with dental providers and we are opening up a new portal, which means that in order to participate all they have to do is accept that dental card and provide service. The dentists who I am talking

Dental Care  Mr. Speaker, of course, the member opposite knows that we are opening a new portal and that members do not have to sign up. All that needs to happen is that they bring their card and they participate in the program. Here is the truth—

Dental Care  Mr. Speaker, the truth is that those members do not want the nine million Canadians who do not have dental care to get service. They do not want Canadians who do not have access to diabetes medication to get it. They do not want women to be able to get access to universal contrac

Pharmacare Act  Madam Speaker, I want to thank the hon. House leader for the NDP. I am very pleased to work with him again in his role as the critic for health. He is absolutely right. I appreciate that these were not always easy conversations. They were indicative of the conversations we had wh

Pharmacare Act  Madam Speaker, I thank the member and my friend for an important question. I have been so encouraged by the conversations that I am having with every provincial health minister across the country, regardless of their stripe. Whether I am talking to Everett Hindley in Saskatchewan

Pharmacare Act  Madam Speaker, it was true in the 1960s and it is true now, that there are purveyors of doom. There are those who try to push people to despair. When one does not believe in a public health care system, what does one want people to do? One wants people to despair, because nothin

Pharmacare Act  Madam Speaker, there is no denying that Quebeckers’ interests are absolutely the same as those of everyone else in the country. Everyone wants access to a health care system that works properly for all. As for the questions surrounding drug insurance, I have had some really goo

Pharmacare Act  Yes, I want to thank parliamentary co-operation. Madam Speaker, I would say to this place that this is what we were intended to do. When we were elected as members of Parliament, we are not here to shout things at each other, to belittle each other or to put each other down. We

Pharmacare Act  moved that Bill C-64, An Act respecting pharmacare, be read the second time and referred to a committee. Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to rise. I want to start by extending gratitude to the member for Vancouver Kingsway for his extraordinary work throughout this process. It w

Health  You, Mr. Speaker, would also be very enthusiastic about the bilateral agreements that have been signed across this country. I want to thank the member for Yukon for his extraordinary work, not only as a member of Parliament but as a physician and a chief medical officer. The work

Dental Care  Mr. Speaker, the oral health care program is quite simple. Plan members receive a card that can be used at any dentist's office across the country. With this card, dentists can use the same system as any other type of insurance. People can receive services easily. If Quebec want