Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We have a situation where people are claiming that we need to implement the reforms as they stand and that the pharmaceutical companies are indeed bluffing. They believe that the drug companies are not going to leave, that clinical trials are going to continue and that patients will face no consequences, even though we have no innovation strategy, even though we separate health from innovation and from research and development, and even though we have no really effective rare disease strategy in place. Some people feel that there will be no impact. Some people feel there are risks.
Ms. Fralick, I'd like to know what Canada represents in the global market. We can always target Vertex, but if it simply didn't start clinical trials here, we would have access to those drugs six to eight years down the road, right?
No one is going to be able to single out anyone, because it's a global free market. Am I mistaken?