Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you for all the presentations here today.
Certainly this is a fascinating topic. I know my family, like most families, has been touched by Alzheimer's. I remember seeing my grandmother two years ago pass away of dementia. I remember that the doctor told us seven years before that it's one of the worst ways to die, and it really is, because it is so insidious. I hope that with the work we're doing we're making progress. There's an exciting remedy here about the $30 million invested through CIHR, and the list of other ideas of what we could be doing.
I have a few questions that I'm curious about. We had the Alzheimer Society on the Hill two years ago when they presented the “Rising Tide” report about the economic consequences associated with Alzheimer's and dementia. Could you share a little bit of information on that and how real those numbers are? Do you agree with the assessment? At the time, Scott Dudgeon was their CEO, who shared with MPs that this was going to be a multi-billion dollar cost to the Canadian health care system.