I would like to ask the chair for permission to leave early today. I have to catch a flight, and I had mentioned it to the clerk, actually, in advance of the meeting. So if that's okay, I would like to go first and then, after this answer, perhaps exit.
In terms of estimating the costs of the delay, if there was no CDR, it would be only a few million dollars saved. So the real cost is in the impact on patients and any additional expenditures on health care that wouldn't have been necessary if people could have accessed drugs sooner.
We simply haven't done that analysis at the institute. We've just started to measure the problem and to engage in the public debate about the value of the CDR and some of the impacts of delays and so on, and access to medicines. I look forward to doing that analysis in the future.
I would focus your attention on what the greatest impact on costs would be on lost health opportunities for patients and what that means for expenditures overall in the health budget.