Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Being a fellow Calgarian, I think I'll focus my questions on Dr. Midgley in Calgary. I hope you're dealing with the snow there. I hear it's been quite a dump of snow.
I want to talk a little bit about pharmaceutical companies and their moral obligations. I'll talk a little bit about the clinical trial of a young patient I knew back in the early 2000s, who had severe rheumatoid arthritis. She was on a trial drug. I won't mention the drug, but it was working wonderfully for her. She went from being a bedridden young lady to a functioning, capable, contributing member of society, but that trial period was ending, and the threat of her losing that drug was very evident.
We had to advocate loudly to the Minister of Health in order to get that drug covered, which took a lot of work. We eventually got it, thank God, but are you hearing a lot of stories like this, of patients on clinical trials who find a drug that does work for them, and then the trial period is over and they end up losing access to it?
Do you have any thoughts on that, Doctor?