I'd just like to address one point you made.
The Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada gets unrestricted grants from the pharmaceutical companies. We provide them with a list of things that we're going to do, and they either do or don't support them. As you can see from this year's report card, only two of the 10 articles had anything to do with drugs, and our emphasis is on much wider aspects than that.
That said, I think we also have to say, on behalf of the drug companies, that they're not all bad people. They have their interests, and this is a capitalist society, after all. If they didn't work, we wouldn't get the drugs. So I don't think it's fair to impute motives to them that are beyond the ethical boundary.
That said, I agree with your point. An independent body needs to be doing this surveillance, but the essence of the success will be draining off the information from all the electronic systems that are already getting this information in medical records across the country, particularly for cancer drugs. The information is there; we're just asking that it be drained off for surveillance and addressing the issues you've just raised.