Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
We can maybe see where this goes, but I think it would be great if we could have the officials back to conclude this round of meetings and studies to see if they have had any thoughts after we've gone through this and whether they'd like to add to this discussion.
Durhane, you made a great point in the beginning about Dr. Stewart. I know they're here to do a great job and everything else, but I can tell you, the number of people who call my office who are not happy with the way Health Canada.... It's not to blame a government; it's just to say the state of the situation. They're not happy. Then I have drug companies that come to visit and have meetings with me. They're not happy. Yet, Health Canada sits here and tells us everything is going pretty well. It seems to me there has to be a disconnect here.
There are 13,000 SAP applications, and I think they made a comment today that they're knocking off about three per year or something like that. They're getting three of these companies to come in and have licensed drugs.
How do we convince these companies to go from being in the SAP to being licensed? What do we have to do as Canadian parliamentarians, Health Canada or the Government of Canada?