Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for Ms. Fralick or for Dr. Neame.
Professor Kelly Grindrod, an expert in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Waterloo, is conducting research to verify and validate the supply of medications in Canada. She considers that the country is already in the grips of one of the worst shortages of medications in our modern history. She claims that, before the arrival of COVID-19, there was already a shortage of more than 1,900 of the 7,000 or so prescription medications in Quebec. That is about 25%.
Ms. Grindrod insists that, in Canada, the entire system lacks transparency. She says that planning is already difficult in normal times, that information is vague and that it is even difficult to find out where the medications are made and where they end up. In her opinion, it is practically impossible to do that kind of monitoring.
Could you please tell us whether you share that opinion and what you think about it?