Thank you very much.
Thank you for coming and thank you for the good beginning in changing this. I think most of us at this committee have felt that post-market surveillance could be Canada's gift to the world. With the single-payer system, there's no real reason why we couldn't be the best at this in the world.
Unless people know about it, we're not going to be very effective at it. I think your opening remarks say that there's still some disappointment in terms of the take-up on this and the actual reporting of adverse affects, both from stakeholders and from citizens.
This would be my first question. There was a very popular website where all Canadians went for their information, called the Canadian Health Network. It was a place where Canadians could look for information on things. Why would you shut that down rather than use it to attain the goals that are in your blueprint here, where it talks about developing mechanisms to encourage participation...? I think, from the performance report the committee saw, this is a website that almost doubled its site visits in the previous year. Yet the minister had the audacity to tell us that it had outlived its usefulness.
So I just don't understand why you're rebuilding and starting from scratch again when there was something very useful there that could have been used. I don't understand.