Thank you.
I don't want to overstate the extent of British Columbia's ability to diagnose, either. There is still a lot of patients who go to their doctors in British Columbia and, looking around the table, there are three of us from British Columbia here, and unless James or Dave want to jump in and suggest otherwise, I'm still hearing from people who've gone to a doctor who hasn't recognized it.
What is unusual is that the B.C. government, through the Provincial Health Services Authority, commissioned a major study on chronic Lyme disease in British Columbia, authored by Brian Schmidt. It's from May 2010 and is a very useful summary of the challenges of the illness and the difficulties in diagnosing it properly. The Provincial Health Officer for Public Health in British Columbia has also stated his support for this bill, because it takes a constructive approach going forward to work together to develop best practices.
Right now there are pockets across Canada. Dr. Murakami in Vancouver, for instance, is one of the people who is acknowledged as a Lyme disease expert. There is a number of doctors across Canada, but they quite often have to send the samples for testing to labs in the United States.