Thank you, Mr. Chair.
As I listen to this discussion, I reflect back to when I had my car accident and I could have been a multiple organ donor myself, but as it turned out, I was the recipient of a blood transfusion instead. Thankfully, that transfusion proved to be a healthy thing to do. However, a lot of people at that time did not receive clean blood, and they contracted hepatitis C. There is a long saga of compensation for those people who shouldn't have got hepatitis C in the first place but did. It wasn't until the time of this current government that $1 billion compensation was awarded to those victims pre-1986, post-1990.
Having reflected on the past of the Canadian blood system, I wonder if any of our witnesses could comment on what would happen—and by the way, a lot of the hepatitis C blood came from high-risk groups, I understand—if we deviated, as has been suggested, from the science that you are basing your decisions on.