I think we should just leave it the way it is, because it says “Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia”. Our colleagues just finished testifying that this was designed to be a national strategy on Alzheimer's disease, so to take out Alzheimer's disease defeats the purpose. In having that word “and”, I think it is very clear that there are other forms of dementia.
As it reads right now, it states:
developing specific national objectives in order to improve the situation of persons suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia and decrease the burden of those diseases on Canadian society;
I think it reads the way the authors intended it to, plus the way that we gave unanimous consent to. I don't see any reason for taking that out.