One of the things the federal government can do in terms of facilitating research and facilitating our understanding of these issues is to dramatically improve both Canada's health surveillance system and the kinds of research platforms that we have available to us. I'll give you an example.
We have no idea how many heart attacks occur in Canada every year. We have no idea. We don't have a cardiac arrest registry. We have very poor cardiovascular-related health surveillance data in the country. Between 1970 and 2000, we went 30 years without a national nutrition survey.
We have encouraged the government to help us to bolster the health indicators and the measures that are going to be in the new Canadian cancer cohort, the Tomorrow Project, to ensure that we have really good, robust health measures in that cohort that will make it not just a cancer cohort, but a chronic disease cohort.
One of the ways in which we can do that is through a really thorough nutrition survey as people go through that cohort. That's not happening at the moment, and if doesn't happen, we're missing a golden opportunity to learn more about how diets and environments impact Canadians' health over time. The federal government has a tremendous role to play in ensuring that Canadian scientists have a really good research platform and data platform to work with, and we don't have that right now.