Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome, Madam Minister, and thank you for being here with us.
Madam Minister, in your mandate letter, it says: “facilitate collaboration on an organ and tissue donations and transplantation system that gives Canadians timely and effective access to care”.
I congratulate you and thank you and your team for having accepted to work with me and having sponsored, if you will, motion M-189, which was tabled a few weeks ago in the House of Commons. It was accepted unanimously by my colleagues, whom I also thank.
I'd like to know what the situation is now. Still today, out of the list of 4,500 people, 250 die every year while they are waiting for an organ donation, either to save their life or to improve their quality of life.
In the near future, how will the provinces, territories and stakeholders work together to facilitate organ and tissue donation in Canada?