Yes, I do believe we need to move forward. They might not be perfect, but they're progress and that's what we need.
Mr. Davies, I'd like to answer your question, but I just want to say one thing.
Ms. Rempel Garner, I appreciate your calling my testimony today “compelling”. As a patient, I'm not here to be compelling. I, too, run an organization and sometimes I feel that I am dismissed because I tell a story, but I tell the story that everybody at this table serves. We are the customer of this product.
Somebody once said to me that our story is a bit like being suddenly cast adrift in a vast and stormy sea in a lifeboat surrounded by unmarked ships that are being piloted by either the Mexican drug cartels or the Coast Guard, but there is no way of knowing which is which. Sometimes that's how we feel, with government on one side and pharma on the other. Even within the advocacy space, we need to know that we are being supported and that our children and our patients are being protected.
For that reason, I do feel that we need to move forward.
Thank you.