Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I just want to make sure that we register our support for Mr. Thériault's motion.
This has been an important issue before Canadians and Health Canada for some time now. It's been our position for quite some time, since the task force recommended changes back in 2018, that any of these implementations so far will negatively impact the lives of Canadians who depend on medications. We're finding that they set aggressive price ceilings for some of those therapies, including those we hear of on a regular basis when it comes to rare disorders. I don't know how many questions asked in the House of Commons at this point have revolved around the issue of access to Trikafta. From what we saw, we don't feel that what we would qualify as a dump of information on a Friday will truly make a change or address the concerns of the different patient advocacy groups when it comes to access to those medications.
As I said, we were sitting in on a conference on Friday with CF Canada, which we were very happy to participate in. Mr. Thériault was there, and Mr. Fisher was there as well. I thought we had a really good understanding and conversation about what would be good changes, what would be bad changes and what the concern of that group would be. From our cursory look at the changes, there is very little change there. I see it's going to be quite a barrier for Canadians to access these different kinds of therapies. I really think it is a great idea to study it.
I also like and respect the request from the honourable member that revolves around the issue of doing this concurrently or at least together. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We can look at different things at the same time, which is why I think we can have a COVID motion going on at the same time we can look at PMPRB, and we can look at mental health. There are things that are, of course, included in many of our motions to this point.
I will just quickly thank the member from the Bloc, our friend Mr. Thériault, for making sure we look at something that's very important to Canadians. Hopefully we can influence at least some more changes, or at least a delay of some sort on the implementation of those changes, as we don't see them actually helping Canadians any further.