I'll be very brief, because I would hope this comes to a vote today. I would only say that the problem is with annex E, which has exclusionary criteria. Included in the exclusionary criteria are men having sex with men, whether or not it's safe sex, unsafe sex, whether or not it's one man having sex with multiple partners or in a monogamous, safe relationship. So that is the problem.
It is true--and we've heard that here--that transplant physicians can use organs from people who are on the exclusionary list with the proper permissions and all those things. That is fine. The problem arises that because we have these standards, based on CSA annex E, that exclude specific groups, those groups are not signing their cards to become donors. So this reduces the pool of available donors, and that is the problem.
The motion does nothing to reduce the safety. There are safety aspects, but the motion calls on the minister to draft regulations that are based on risk and not on sexual orientation.
One final poin: What we have to ensure is that our regulations will also survive. These regulations as currently stated might not survive the test of law. We saw in the work of the Library of Parliament that it was derogated powers to the second degree, where the law now gives the cabinet the potential to make regulations. Here cabinet again gives CSA the possibility of making recommendations, because it's CSA that does annex E. So cabinet is no longer making regulations, but a third-party organization.
But time is running short. I hope we are able to vote before we leave.