Thank you, Madam Chair. It's really lovely to be here.
Thank you so much for coming.
I am going to ask about neurological disease. I think everyone knows that the brain is the most vital organ of the human body and that if it doesn't work properly every aspect of life is compromised. One in three--or 10 million--Canadians will be affected by a neurological disease or a psychiatric disease disorder injury at some point in their life. There are no cures for ALS, MS, Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease and no treatment that consistently slows or stops the course of these devastating neurological diseases.
In the last Parliament we had a subcommittee on neurological disease. I hope they're going to bring it back and I hope the report is going to come back.
I have a very simple question, a yes or no one: Will the government, or Health Canada, or CIHR commit to the national brain strategy that the neurological health charities have been asking for?