Thank you for the question. I'm very happy to answer this.
As I touched on earlier, we can say that in Canadian society the question of discrimination is recognized as a fundamentally ethical issue. Discrimination can lead to a violation of one's integrity or one's autonomy, and those are principles that we value in Canadian society. Those are principles that are integral to our health care system today.
What I can say is that if we understand genetic discrimination as being part of what constitutes discrimination, it touches on what we consider to be some of the most fundamental ethical issues in health care, which are questions of equity, of access, of equitable access, of appropriate care, and, from a public health perspective, I would even add appropriate use of scarce resources.
To summarize, this question of genetic discrimination, if we understand it to be as constituting discrimination—and I think we can all agree that discriminating against someone based on their genetic characteristics is discrimination—really touches on the most fundamental ethical issues that we value in Canadian society.