Jim Wilson from the Canadian Lyme Foundation is here as well, and I know they work quite closely. They were represented at a recent Lyme disease awareness event that took place in Victoria. While very uncommon, it's not unknown for someone to die of Lyme disease, and in that case Mr. Magnotta did. He had been a very successful businessman and a very important part of the community. Tragic events like that help us focus on exactly how critical it is that we get better awareness, better prevention, treatment, and understanding of the illness.
I skipped over something Mr. Young said that I should have drawn attention to. I don't think a lot of Canadians know about the decision of Health Canada; I'm not sure when it started, but there's been almost $5 million committed to research in Lyme disease. That's really encouraging. I think with the private foundation community and the public health authorities and Health Canada working together, one of the key pieces—I obviously couldn't put it in the bill, because I can't attach any money commitments to a private member's bill—is that we really do need to do more research into what to do to assist people who, either through misdiagnosis or through failure themselves to pursue diagnosis while thinking they're tired all the time, are in wheelchairs: they really need advanced funding for research to find a way to get back to health, after having been suffering from Lyme for some time.
That's a piece where the foundation work is so critical.