I appreciate that. I submitted my notes.
I'm sorry. Perhaps I should have cut it down to eight, but here are the other two.
Firstly, we need to continue to take a leadership role in global climate change and greenhouse gases. If we don't address that one, the next generations are going to be in big trouble, I think.
Secondly, I'll go back to what Dr. Verchere was talking about: Invest in health research. Keep an eye on those budgets. Canada has a stellar record of contributing globally to new innovation and knowledge that are actionable and make a difference to people's lives. Through our CIHR, there's a specific institute of human development, child and youth health. Make sure we are well funded, so we can support some of the world's best scientific minds and mentor the next generation of clinicians and scientists.
I remember being in Cape Breton, when I started as a medical student, and looking after kids with cancer who died or had a high chance of dying. By the time I started practising and was well into my first decade, these kids sometimes had 90% survival rates. That's all because of clinical trials and research. It's the same for diabetes, to Dr. Verchere's point. We have all these new tools because people are doing research to help us, as a health care community.
Those were the other two things I wanted to mention.