To answer the honourable member's question, our perspective is that the government has the role in regulating. Very clearly, manufacturers that have marketed health products in Canada have a legal obligation to report all adverse reactions known to them. The gap that the previous member got into was what can be done to encourage other people to report. From the perspective of the organization I work for, we receive reports from consumers, health professionals--namely pharmacists, nurses, physicians--other regulatory bodies, and the literature, to name but a few. I think the issue of whether the data should be analyzed within Health Canada or by a third party is something that should be subjected to a policy scrutiny analysis from a perception and reality perspective.
I'd like to close my comment with just one perspective. Even a glass of water is not necessarily safe because drinking too much water for someone who is not in a position to tolerate it may not be a good thing. Forget about the bacterial quality of the water.