Thank you very much.
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers came before this committee and said that they're not being subsidized, which I thought was a fascinating comment.
I'd like to go to Ms. Murray. Those are very compelling cases that you brought forward, particularly Jennifer's, who at 21 years of age was diagnosed with MS. My cousin Julie Serle suffered from MS at about the same age, in her early twenties, and died a horrible death about 15 years later. As a teacher she lost her job. At no point did she get any sort of recovery. So the work the Stem Cell Network is doing is fundamentally important. I'm surprised to learn that you're fighting to keep the doors open to get that funding to sustain you.
How important is it that the federal government shift from what we currently see, which is year-to-year funding or small numbers of years where funding is provided, to a multi-year funding commitment? It may not be good politics. You can't make the announcement, but you can sustain that research that's so vitally important for Canadians who suffer from those kinds of degenerative diseases.