So I want to congratulate you, Mr. Eyking. I also want to acknowledge the hard work—I've met with you, and I know the hard work that Lindsay MacPhee of your staff has done in researching and working on this. She is someone we all have a great deal of respect for. Also, Ken Kyle has been a really strong advocate. He has appeared before the finance committee and the health committee before on a lot of issues. The Canadian Cancer Society is a leader on a lot of advocacy issues, and there is my old friend Manuel Arango, from my days on the board of the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
To have the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Cancer Society here indicates the seriousness of this issue. These are the two biggest disablers in Canada—not you two—cancer, and heart disease and stroke. So this is really a very important bill. We have all been touched by heart disease and by cancer specifically.
I would like to ask Mr. Eyking if there was any particular inspiration for him for this bill, whether it was a person, individual, or family member, a friend or somebody who inspired him to work on this bill, if he is comfortable in answering that.
Also, I would ask him if he has had a chance to have a look at what other countries are doing on this issue.