Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
What we've heard from the medical experts who have appeared before the committee is that the lack of isotope production is pushing them to the brink. We've heard, for example, that there are people who are actually leaving the study of this because of the problems existing now. We've heard there are doctors who are no longer referring patients.
Dr. Urbain, the president of the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine, told us in fact that because people are not being referred for the tests using medical isotopes, what's effectively happening with some of them, obviously, is that the cancer is growing. And they've said—