That's absolutely right. There are jurisdictional issues with attaching anything to the licences of health care professionals such as doctors or pharmacists. This is a practice of medicine and pharmacy that is under provincial and territorial jurisdiction. We've been having discussions with them, because I think everybody recognizes that we need to do something. What's the best approach? Where do we start? What's practical, given privacy concerns, given the state of information technology in terms of being able to share these? These are all barriers to moving forward fast on this issue.
On January 31st, 2008. See this statement in context.