Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for being here today. I always find your presence to be very informative.
I want to follow up on my colleague's questions on the Infoway. I want to commend the government for taking a leadership role for electronic records. I think everybody sees the goal, and it's getting closer and closer.
I know there are challenges with the patchwork system we have in Canada. I had the opportunity to read an article about some software being developed at McGill; how it would even work both ways, whereby the software could remind patients, for example, to take their shots of insulin on time.
But it brings up privacy issues. I come from Oshawa, where there was a situation in which electronic records were misplaced. What is the role of the federal government regarding privacy issues in development of these records? Is it something that's a jurisdictional thing with us, or do the provinces look after it, or is it a combination between the two?
And how is that situation being worked upon? When that situation happened in Oshawa, in which these records... Electronically, you can now condense so much information on even a little stick—it's portable, and you can put it on the Internet—that there are some concerns about this. What kind of progress have we had with that?