I'll perhaps just add to my previous response. It's an important question that you're raising.
I would also like to introduce our deputy chief public health officer, Dr. Greg Taylor, who may also wish to make a few comments.
There is no doubt that the work in British Columbia, the work of Dr. Montaner, is very interesting, promising, and is delivering results in that particular context.
I would say to the committee and to the member that we are not ignoring that work, not at all. In fact, it is a topic of discussion not only with our partners in the HIV/AIDS sector, the ministerial advisory committee on the federal initiative, as well as the national partners that we engage with on HIV/AIDS, but also with our provincial and territorial partners.
British Columbia is bringing the concept to the table, and it forms part of the discussion of our public health network council in terms of how to best place this, how to look at this, in the array of responses to HIV/AIDS that this country is undertaking.
As I mentioned in my previous comments, this is also a topic of conversation, as the member has pointed out, at the World Health Organization, the World Health Assembly, and we also looked at it at the International AIDS Conference.
There have been advancements in the area of HIV/AIDS. People who have this disease are living much longer than they used to, and we are encouraged by that. Also, there has been huge progress made in terms of maternal transmission. Fewer and fewer children are contracting the disease.