Thank you very much for your question.
I'll answer in English, because French with a Scottish accent is an experience you don't want to hear.
I think the idea of independence is crucial, but transparency is equally crucial. We need a system put in place that the policy-makers and politicians have agreed on, that represents Canadian values, that is transparent, and that represents what's best for society in general. Then you leave independent people to make the individual decisions about what interventions are covered and what are not covered. You appoint another body, an overseer body, to make sure the independent body is adhering to the principles that Parliament or decision-makers have agreed to. That works well. It creates a system that the legislative decision-makers have bought into and have created.
You find the experts who have no conflict of interest to take part in that. Don't believe the argument from the pharmaceutical industry that those who have pharmaceutical money are therefore obviously the experts. The pharmaceutical industry creates experts and creates key opinion leaders. There's a great German saying, “Whose bread I eat, their song I sing.” That is very common across the physician world these days. We need to keep independence, but transparency is the key.
At the end of the day, it comes up to the decision-makers to develop the process that represents Canadian values and then let those independent people run with it.