Blood Supply System  Mr. Speaker, I do not think it is up to the Ministry of Health to respond to the witnesses who present to the Krever commission. It is up to us to respond to what the Krever commission itself says. The Krever commission has, I repeat, said that the safety of the blood system in

Blood Supply  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to answer that question, but it is really rather sad that such an important subject as blood should be dealt with in such a flippant manner. The Krever inquiry has been set up to look at the safety of blood in the 1980s. That report has not yet come dow

Blood Supply  Mr. Speaker, it is not only the Minister of Health who said the system is safe; it actually came out of Mr. Krever himself. Those are his words on his safety audit. I believe the hon. member is speaking about another audit. All these audits are tools the Krever commission is usi

National Housing Act  Mr. Speaker, I thought I answered that question before. Perhaps I will have to try a different way of getting my message across. I want to quickly say that in the riding of the member who asked me the first question, 5,580 constituents have in fact purchased homes using CMHC fun

National Housing Act  Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to answer that question. The very asking of the question, which seems to be the one repetitive question the Reform Party asks in spite of the answers being given, tells me that members of the third party are really not in touch with the people of Canad

National Housing Act  If the hon. member will allow me to do so, I will. I would like to answer the question. Reform members are not in touch with the people of Canada. Seventy-four per cent of Canadians say that the program is important because it assists them in buying homes. We are not talking abo

National Housing Act  Mr. Speaker, I am really pleased to have the opportunity to speak in support of Bill C-108, an act to amend the National Housing Act. I am pleased for two reasons, one because it is timely. Yesterday in my riding, I went to a conference of the BCNPHA which is a group of diverse

Department Of Health Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to comment on the hon. member's statement. Much has been said about paragraph 4.(2)(a) and that it in fact has begun to encroach on provincial jurisdiction. I would like to refer the hon. member to clause 12, which states: Nothing in this Act or the regulati

Department Of Health Act  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his comments. The hon. member spoke about the health forum. He said the health forum is encroaching on provincial jurisdictions. The health forum is a dialogue by Canadians who form the forum and who were chosen from every province. They

Department Of Health Act  Mr. Speaker, I understand the hon. member's comment. It is like the chicken and the egg syndrome. According to the member's vision of health it would be a super ministry encompassing all the ministries that will in turn look to the Department of Health to make decisions. Obvious

Department Of Health Act  Mr. Speaker, I appreciated the hon. member's comments, some of which were well thought out. I appreciate her supporting the bill. The most important recurring theme I heard the hon. member refer to was that this new act will weaken the Ministry of Health in that the Ministry of

Department Of Health Act  Mr. Speaker, I want first to make a few comments on the hon. member's speech and then ask her a question. The hon. member gave us a wonderful history of what has happened since 1919. At the end of that history, the hon. member mentioned it culminated in what we now know as Canad

Department Of Health Act  Mr. Speaker, I would like to comment on medicare and on the way the system is to be restructured. It would deal, as my hon. colleague said just, with some of the structural changes that are necessary to move the system into the 21st century. The cost of medicare and the changing

Department Of Health Act  Mr. Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to comment on some of the things the hon. member for Macleod had to say in his speech. I notice the hon. member is not here.

Department Of Health Act  I apologize, Mr. Speaker. I would like to comment on the statements of the hon. member for Macleod. With all due respect to William Shakespeare, methinks the hon. member doth protest too much in his speech when he continued to repeat over and over that the Reform Party did not me