Thank you for giving me the time.
I'm going to draw attention to something that Mr. Abbott said. He said that medicines sent abroad have to comply with “strict compliance guidelines”. Those were his words. He's right.
Strict compliance guidelines are not the same as law. Law is different from guidelines. Having it in the law, Mr. Wallace--because you did ask about the bill--that Health Canada must exercise the same regulatory oversight for medicines that are exported under CAMR as for medicines taken by Canadians...that's actually the only correct way to do it, not guidelines that aren't legally binding.
There is a problem that has been experienced in Europe. I have to be coy in these comments because a colleague of mine who spoke about this publicly was sued.
There is a European country in which there is a European company that supplies malaria medicines to Africa, some of which are substandard. Why? It's because the unnamed country's law allows medicines to be exported from Europe to Africa that do not meet the regulatory standards of the European country itself. This has certainly resulted in patients getting the wrong sort of treatment.
The tactics are so brutal in this industry that another professor was litigated against for even bringing this up.