Thank you.
I could jump right in on the question of a national registry. I know the committee I was part of did not recommend the registry. It has been an active issue before Parliament. In fact, I've had a bill for many, many years on this very matter.
Perhaps we could have unanimous consent from the committee to advance this bill through all stages, because it would be an important issue, an important way to deal with the issue of an adequate system of organ donations and transplantations in this country.
Mr. Plater raises a very important point here, that in fact we have discrimination built into that system so that people with HIV and hepatitis aren't eligible to receive a donation, even when they need a liver transplant. I think you're saying that; you might want to clarify. It sounds to me as if we need to deal with discrimination at both ends of this system, and that's certainly one way.
Let me give you a chance to answer that question in the context of your questioning of whether or not, if we move away from what the government has proposed and what the Standards Association has proposed, we might not be fulfilling our obligations in terms of the precautionary principle.
We have heard suggestions from many other witnesses that we are missing the boat when it comes to the true risk factors. All we're doing is building discrimination against gay men into the system. I'd like to start with you, and then I've got a few other questions.