Thank you, Chair.
Thank you for coming in today and presenting some very compelling testimony.
Dr. Forbes, initially in your testimony you mentioned that Canada is the only country in the G8 that does not have some form of regulation of genetic discrimination. With this proposed legislation, we would create imprisonment as a possible penalty for those who discriminate based on genetics. Looking at international law and trying to compare where Canada would stand, I see that the U.S., Austria, Finland, and Ireland have monetary penalties. France and Israel have imprisonment as penalties. I could go on.
Have you seen effects in the international community with respect to how it impacts discrimination whether monetary penalties only are involved or whether it's imprisonment as well as monetary penalties?