Thank you, Madam Chair.
Briefly, Ms. Leslie, I think Liz Anne was pointing out the different roles of the federal government as regulator and the provinces and territories as funders of the service provision, which I completely concur with, and hence our business case has gone to the provinces and territories and the ministers of health in those jurisdictions for approval.
I believe this committee and the federal government have continued to support the need for a national bank. I think the federal government can continue to play a role there, but ultimately the funding and delivery thereof is something that falls firmly within the health care provision of the constitutional differences that we have in this country with respect to health care.
I believe the current regulations in place from Health Canada, as Liz Anne has summarized, are adequate. They support the appropriate respective views of safety. They allow sufficient access. They are there to protect Canadians, and as she said, they also have the flexibility that distinguishes cell tissues and organs from the more rigid rules that apply to blood, where we have a very different donor-recipient relationship. So we believe, at Canadian Blood Services, it is the role for the provincial governments to approve and fund this. The federal government can certainly continue to support and champion it, but we also believe the federal government's regulatory oversight is appropriate.