Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the member from Edmonton Centre for coming and shedding some light on this very important issue.
You raised a few questions here. My first question is that the Canadian Blood Services and Héma-Québec put in place a policy allowing men who have sex with men to only donate blood after a year of abstinence. Where does the rationale to implement this policy come from? How did this come about? Before it was five years. Where did the rationale come from?