Thank you for your question.
French is difficult for me, so I'll answer in English.
I absolutely believe that insulin and other vulnerable medications—my colleague and I use a lot of the same words—should be produced here in Canada.
How do you tell a small child that the process they're about to go through will lead to death? It means they're going to lose their vision. Their kidneys are going to fail. If they get a cut on their foot, that foot is going to turn into an abscess, which could then mean an amputation. That's all going to happen before they die.
I can't overemphasize it: Insulin is critical for people to survive. Right now, there are 60 to 100 people in this country who rely on animal insulin to survive, and the company in the U.K. started to say, “We're not going to be making that for you anymore.” That was a crisis for those people. We have a small resolution, but unfortunately we can't make it here in Canada yet, and I would like to see that changed.
