Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here and giving this interesting testimony.
My colleagues talked about Health Canada requiring certain things for consent, but we know the consent law in Canada is between a physician and a patient, so that would present some difficulties. The only reason I want to bring that forward is that I think it's important that we not offer people false hope of what may or may not change. I think we need to live in reality here, and that's important.
I have a couple of things on medical tourism and immigrant Canadians, people coming here from other countries who have had implants inserted. I guess I look at that.... That's going to continue to create a significant problem for all of us with respect to a registry, which means that perhaps there is a requirement for that interim step. I know my colleague Madame Brière talked a bit about this, a card or an online registry where people could put their information as an interim step, because we have no jurisdiction over physicians in other countries and how to make them become part of our registry.
Do you have any thoughts about that? Would that make sense? What if we compelled the manufacturers to have a website on which women could then enter their information, saying, “Yes, l had Allergan XYZ. It was a textured, silicone-based implant,” etc.? At least that would provide some protection for folks coming here to understand what may happen.
Could you quickly give a few comments on that idea?