Yes, thank you. I would echo everything that's been said.
There's such a feeling of powerlessness when you are diagnosed with cancer that you need support in the best of times. What we've been hearing through our helpline—we have a community called cancerconnection.ca where patients and caregivers go to support each other and share their experiences—is a frustration that they can't get answers about what's going to be next for them, which is very understandable, because the health care system right now is trying to determine how it's going to reopen, resume services and get back up to the levels of care that people need.
The anxiety is very high. For us it's meant that we're more relevant than ever to people. We're not part of the health care system; we're not funded as part of the health care system. We're funded purely by donations that people from across the country contribute to help each other. I think that's really pointed out the importance of that second part of the health care system that keeps a lot of things going, that takes the pressure off government-funded health care, but that is really a lifeline for people when they have nowhere else to turn and they have to deal with the inadequacies of our system.
The anxiety is there, and I think it's going to be there until we start to see the backlog being dealt with.