It would be a huge help. As I mentioned, and as Dr. West mentioned as well, we have many of the pieces in place to do these jobs well, but at the present time, for example, in Canadian Blood Services, the section charged with this goes back every three years to write another request to the federal-provincial-territorial ministers conference for funding. How much is going to come, and whether any is going to come, is never known for sure, and that's a very difficult way for a national organization with such an important job to be operating. It seems that you just get the last tranche of money and, within a year, your focus is on looking at how to get funding next time rather than how to do the job that we're basically required to do.
On May 9th, 2018. See this statement in context.