Yes. Thank you for the question.
We have a desperate need. I was showing one of my medical students an obviously conflicted opinion on opioids from the Mayo Clinic Proceedings journal in 2009, which sounds like a very prestigious journal. It's an article obviously ghostwritten, not written by the professor whose name was on it but written by a medical communications company and paid for by one of the opioid manufacturers. I asked my fourth-year medical student two weeks ago to try to find out how much this man was paid. Within minutes he was back to me by email saying it was $500,000 U.S. during 2015.
The U.S. has cms.gov, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' sunshine law. We have no ability to know anything in Canada—that is, anything about payments to physicians or to other health care providers, maybe nurses or social workers. With one stroke, if the Parliament of Canada passed a sunshine law, we would suddenly know who the key opinion leaders are and how much they have been paid to give the kind of messages that led, in large part, to the opioid crisis.