We’ve heard some pirate references this afternoon. We’ve heard the term “myth” thrown around a little bit. I think maybe, for those watching at home, for those in the room, for those in the gallery—let’s do a little bit of myth-busting, shall we, Madam Speaker?

There are already 800 independent health clinics that are doing procedures in the province of Ontario—licences extended by the NDP government in the late 1990s, the Conservative government and the subsequent Liberal government. We’re performing roughly—correct me if I’m wrong, colleagues—26,000 procedures at these facilities already.

The member opposite sits beside the member from Waterloo, and so my question to him is—in Waterloo, we have TLC laser institute. They’ve been in partnership with St. Mary’s hospital for the last several years doing these cataract procedures outside of the hospital, with great success. So my question to the member from London North Centre is: Does he believe that the people of Waterloo should have to wait longer for their cataract surgeries to be able to have them performed in hospital, or should they be able to be performed in independent clinics?