Thank you, MP Sidhu. Thank you for your support as well.
Awareness—being able to talk around a table, at a coffee shop, at events or anywhere, and being able to discuss and make people aware of how important it is—is a big deal. When we see someone who was ill and they received a kidney, liver or heart, and, when we see the life of that person—we see him or her walking on the street, talking, going back to work, engaging with the community and all of that—this is what we need to do: We need to bring this in front of as many Canadians as we can, across the whole large country that we have.
I think the core element of this bill is to provide that opportunity and have it available on a daily basis, if possible. Especially when the award is there, people will learn more. More communities, more members, more work colleagues and more friends...everybody will be able to learn, and that further encourages the ability and intention, among Canadians, to come forward and donate.
I mean, people can live with one kidney. You don't need two kidneys. If you have that will to donate, save someone's life and improve life—as I said, not just for the individual and his or her own family but the whole community and, further, the whole country—that is a worthy goal. That's the intention of what we're doing here.