Thanks.
I'd like to move to the amount of time it takes to get new drugs approved in Canada. A recent article said that the most important factor explaining delays in getting drugs to market and in approval of new medicines in Canada is “the difference in the dates on which manufacturers submitted new drugs to agencies for regulatory approval”.
It turns out that the average gap between regulators for approving new drugs is actually very, very small once they've received applications; in Canada it is about four days different from the U.S. and nine days different from the EU. Can you outline why pharmaceutical companies are delaying access to new drugs in Canada by waiting over a year, on average, to submit their applications to Health Canada?