Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This past Sunday I had a chance to be with my community to participate in ceremonies to remember the 13th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide. Part of that genocide, in its darkest chapter, was the fact that we all stood by and didn't do anything. Also, in Rwanda now, we have an explosion of AIDS and a number of different diseases because of what happened there. They're infected quite seriously with it now.
This seems to be happening as well with a number of nations now. We have legislation. It's always helpful to see where you're going or where you want to go by revisiting where you started from. Where we started from, it was quite clear that we wanted to be the role model, to set the example for other nations, to institute legislation that actually would produce drugs that could go to developing nations across the planet, not just Africa, for tuberculosis, malaria, a series of different diseases.
Now we've run into these problems on our side, being the forebears of this. Have there been discussions between your different departments or the ministers with our other sister nations who are once again in this situation, where our legislation, whatever intent it might have had, is not producing the real results tangibly for individuals who are affected by these diseases and the countries that we were professing to be able to support...coming from the original nation request to WTO to actually do this in first place? That's where it started from. Has there been that discussion among our colleagues who have actually presented legislation or crafted legislation that doesn't work for all of us combined together?