Mr. Speaker, I rise to present a petition from people in Peterborough who are concerned about kidney disease.
The petitioners know that real progress is being made in various ways of preventing and coping with kidney disease, in particular, the development of a bioartificial kidney.
The petitioners call upon Parliament to make research funding available to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for the explicit purpose of conducting bioartificial kidney research as an extension of research being conducted in the United States.
I thank Ken Sharp of Peterborough for his fine work on these petitions.