Thank you.
One of the things that we're hearing, and I heard it again today from Ms. Gulenchyn, and I invite you to answer this question as well, is that other diagnostics were available, other treatments. My question is this. Would anyone die if they didn't receive the treatments or the diagnostics? I keep hearing from the minister that people were going to die.
I understand that there may have been delays, that definitely there was going to be a shortage, that people were managing that shortage, and I heard from Ms. Gulenchyn that if we didn't act in Parliament when we did, the crisis would have escalated or we would have indeed been in a crisis across Canada. We're hearing a different story from the east than from the west. I just wondered if we can figure out whether there were conversations across the country. Ms. Gulenchyn said back on December 6 in an interview that she didn't expect the delays to be life-threatening. I'd like her also to answer the question, because you're both saying the same thing, that this was not a life-threatening crisis.