I have one thing to add. Our regulations do not give
authority to compel a sponsor to come to Canada. We cannot compel a company to market a product in Canada, so we work to encourage them to come. We work to provide incentives at the level of clinical trials. We work to ensure that Canadians get access if there are rare disease trials going on. Canada punches, I think, above its weight from the point of view of academia and research centres, so we try to get these trials in so Canadians get access at the development stage and therefore we have evidence on Canadian patients when the submission comes in.
At the end of the day, we cannot make a company come to Canada. One of the realities is the population in Canada is not the same as the population of the U.S. or in the EU, so some of the decisions of these larger companies when they come in in their sequencing is the size of the population.
As Cathy pointed out, we are trying to work internationally, work sharing, so that companies can come in and get an approval for more than one country with one application. We're hoping this will be an incentive for companies to look to Canada and our partners we're work sharing with to come sooner.