I do. I'm just saying it's okay to bring ideas to committee after talking to researchers across the country.
We have an aging population. We're talking about Parkinson's today, and another concern is dementia. One person is diagnosed with dementia every five minutes. The cost is $15 billion a year. The human costs are horrific, but in 30 years that's going to be once every two minutes and the cost will be $153 billion.
The World Health Organization has called for countries to produce a national dementia strategy. Five of the G-7 nations have done so, and Canada is lagging behind.
What are the Parkinson's impacts? We've talked about the human impacts. Can we talk about the economics?