Thank you very much.
I'm afraid that the patients of Canada don't see the way the government can operate in these sorts of silos, as you've described. We have a health minister before us, and I believe we should, with the will of the committee members, be able to ask questions about the well-being of Canadians and how they will get the tests they need with the isotope crisis as it is.
So I will start with a question. It has a dollar sign in front of it instead of a stethoscope, if that's what you'd prefer.
Minister, last week the Toronto Star reported that isotope costs were increasing from $5,000 to $30,000 and this is just beginning to appear on the clinics' monthly isotope invoices. How are Ontario hospitals and clinics handling this increased cost of medical isotopes?