That's a great question.
If you look at Europe right now, you see that Europe is working collaboratively to eliminate any barriers for interoperability in its system and to have data that flows as freely as rivers. With the advent of AI and new technology, if we have a fragmented data system with data that's locked up in places where we can't get hold of it, we're going to be running around in circles. We'll miss an opportunity for prevention that's absolutely outstanding.
I'll talk about our good friend and former colleague, Arnold Chan. Arnold was very close to all of us. He was somebody who reached across the aisle and loved this Parliament very deeply. He had a genetic form of cancer. It didn't get caught early enough, but he was able to then tell his brother to get screened. His brother found out that he had the same cancer. It saved his brother's life.
In an interconnected data system, once we can sequence the human genome in the next couple of years and have that available to people, being able to tell patients that they're genetically at risk for particular diseases is absolutely so powerful. This is what Bill C-72 can unlock. It would be a wonderful legacy to think of Arnold and what this portends by passing that legislation. I hope that we do it.
It also means incredible things for reducing administrative burden. Maybe I'll talk about that for a second.
You know how frustrating it is to send the same form three or four times, to have information get lost in paper and to not have the ability to send a prescription digitally. We have tools like AI scribes, which can do some of the most menial work around taking notes and take it off a doctor's shoulders. If we can apply that across the system and if we could put that in place, that's equivalent to 1,000 doctors overnight. We can't do that if we don't pass Bill C-72.
A lot of times, data doesn't sound sexy, but the power of data to transform our health system is outstanding. Europe is doing it. We shouldn't waste a second. We have to do it as well. I hope that we can pass it in this Parliament.