Okay. Thanks.
Mr. McFadyen, we had our Health Canada officials here. They paint a very rosy picture of the landscape and all the great things they claim to have done, but we see the example of the patients who have cystinosis. They get one drug through this program, the SAP, for many years, and it works. Another pharmaceutical company comes along, sees a tremendous opportunity to make a lot of money, gets their drug registered in Canada, and then Health Canada starts to force patients onto that drug at a higher cost.
I know they say that it's one in a million that this is the case, but I know that can't be true. That's not the complete issue with rare diseases, etc., but why can't we go to the drug company that has been providing that drug for 22 years and just ask what we have to do to get this into the country so that we don't have to force people off it? Why can't we say to them that for these rare and ultra-rare ones, we will make it worth it for them to register and not go through...? In the last meeting we had with Durhane, she said that there are 13,000 applications in Canada per year through the SAP.