Thank you, Geoff, for the bill. I am a Vancouver Canucks fan, and even though you are a Boston Bruins fan, I will be voting in favour of the bill. Quite by accident, I did wear a purple tie today; I think there's even some lavender in there too, so my version of the tie is bilingual.
I have a friend who has epilepsy. He underwent surgery after many years. It was experimental surgery at the time and it greatly relieved the symptoms he faced. He spoke about his time in high school when he was on medication. He had just enough energy to get through to the end of the day and then he would go home to sleep, because the side effect was severe drowsiness, I assume to try to keep things under control. This was 20 years ago.
Have there been any improvements in the pharmaceuticals available for people with epilepsy, or are they the same treatments that have been around for a number of years?