Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Thibeault, it was unknown to me until your presentation that Canada, the land in which insulin was invented, currently doesn't manufacture any insulin. That's a pretty embarrassing fact. I'd like to dive into the root cause of that with you. I think there might be a hint in the second story you told, about animal insulin. Maybe 60 to 100 people in Canada can't tolerate anything else.
After you said that, I looked it up. There's a Globe and Mail article you're quoted in, so I imagine you've seen it. It describes how the former supplier of animal insulin in Canada has modernized by moving from providing it in vials to providing it in cartridges. Health Canada has required them to apply to get regulatory approval to deliver the same medicine in a different package.
Would you agree with me that this seems like something Health Canada maybe should have waived for the benefit of the 60 to 100 people who have been using that medicine for their whole lives?