Thank you, Madam Chair.
Today we have talked a lot about post-market surveillance of the consumption of drugs. I want to take a bit of a different angle. Today the Canadian Medical Association Journal released a study described as the first to document a wide range of unintended health consequences from a major drug warning.
It describes how Health Canada issued a warning on a variety of antidepressants for children, and as a result, there was a 10% decrease to visits to doctors but a 25% increase in the suicide rate. I read that first in the Winnipeg Free Press this morning. I'm looking at the Leader Post from Regina.
Could you comment on the unintended consequences? If you're too cautious, you could have unintended consequences the other way, by denying people the drugs they would need. If you deny the drugs or reduce the availability of drugs that people may need, that would be an unintended consequence in itself.