Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I guess we're concerned that we are breaking, and I know everyone is. Unfortunately, while we're breaking, their disease continues to progress. It is going to mean a potential delay until we get back in the fall. Just because we're breaking...this is not fair. As some of the members on this committee know, there are people who are in hospital dying at the moment. The reality is that 433 people die each year of this disease.
And a three-month delay for some is going to mean the difference between walking and not walking, between living on their own or with assistance. I would really like to ask, because we do not have another meeting of the neurological subcommittee.... There would be a lot of power coming if there were a letter from this committee to the minister asking that....
I think there was a wonderful consensus in the House on Monday night, which is that there needs to be federal and provincial cooperation. One of the strong recommendations is that if the minister could pull the provinces and territories together to work out how to do diagnosis and treatment of this, we could get this moving.