I have had a hard time doing that follow-up on the Internet, to get through all those areas such that you would see them all. It didn't appear to me to be too user-friendly, that if I checked the regulations, I would automatically be brought to or focused on annex E. If I look at the regulations by the Department of Justice in accordance with the Canada Health Act and then I look at the general standard, in the regulation it points me to section 13.1.3. Then I look at section 13.1.3 and I see nothing offensive there. Then if I go further and look at the annex, I can see where people are concerned, because it raises some questions for me that might not necessarily....
I know, and it has been presented, that you can use disclaimer forms to get around it. So anybody can be a donor with a proper disclaimer, and I understand that it's common practice in the transplant community to get disclaimers signed by, I think, almost every patient. They are asked to sign a disclaimer. But it doesn't take away the problem of the availability, because if I look, the first thing I see is that men who have had sex with another man in the preceding five years cannot be on the donor list. They would not be encouraged to sign a donor card. Certainly we know that community now has reduced. So that one would be altered.
Why don't we include “if that brings risk”? I could maybe understand if somebody has had many partners and was active in the community; there may be an added risk. But for somebody in a monogamous relationship, how would their risk be higher than a heterosexual couple married for 20 years and engaged in anal sex?