Madam Speaker, I would like to ask the hon. member a very decided question. It is a question which I believe is fundamental to human rights.
I can take my car to a shop and have it fixed. Even though the repairs are covered by the British Columbia government run insurance company, I can choose the car dealer. I can choose my doctor for myself and members of my family, even though it is a government funded health care system.
Does he agree that we should have also the fundamental right to choose for our children how and where they should be educated? If there is a defence of that right of free choice, should there be a financial penalty attached to exercising that right?