Right.
Of course the legislation will be enormously helpful. I think it was very kind of Irwin Cotler to make this point in his speech at second reading. He talked about the fact his own daughter has Lyme disease, and he said that even having the debates we're having in the House has already helped increase awareness. That's good, but I want to get the bill passed.
When we have a federal framework, we'll be identifying for all jurisdictions how to better prevent it through more awareness. We'll identify how to better diagnose it through doctor-to-doctor sharing of best practices so that when a patient shows up in a doctor's office, the doctor will be looking for symptoms and asking if this could be Lyme disease. Once a quick diagnosis is made, we'll know how to treat it and therefore have better treatment.
I didn't touch on this part of the bill, but I should mention the part about collecting information. Paragraph 3(a) of the bill calls for a surveillance program, so the data will be collected by the Public Health Agency. We'll track incidence rates and also the economic costs of Lyme disease. That's going to be very useful information to justify the programs going forward.