What I can add is that we feel it's very important to have national standards because, as we know, if we leave it to provincial regulation we can end up with a patchwork of regulations. That's not consistent with the spirit of the Canada Health Act, which wants to guarantee portability and, for example, access to care.
There are many reasons why there should be national standards. One of them is the question of access, as well as protections for Canadians. One thing I can say in my capacity as an ethicist is that genetic discrimination is fundamentally an ethical issue. We know that discrimination is addressed at a federal level, because we need that consistency and uniformity across the country.