First of all, I want to thank the committee for allowing me to speak.
Secondly, I would thank Health Canada, the officials, and the minister for responding to your report.
I haven't had an opportunity to fully synthesize the response, but I think the question that Canadians will want answered is this. Have we moved away from describing our efforts historically towards establishing some kind of a benchmark and timeline to address FASD? That's the simple question.
If you look back at the subcommittee report of the health committee of the day in 1992, you will see a report called Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: The Preventable Tragedy. They describe all of the things we're saying today, every one of them, and every recommendation we're making today. It's from back in 1992, and it's a long time.
I think Canadians who are interested, the stakeholders right across the country, of which there are a very large number, would like to know there is some hope that we will take some concrete steps.