I go back to the recommendation we've made around the national brain strategy overall, which is that we've come a long way, but a tremendous number of conversations need to be initiated and facilitated. I would suggest that a brain bank conversation is one of those things that's part of a research strategy, part of a national research approach to neuroscience in Canada, and there probably hasn't been the convening of a conversation of neuropathologists and people who can tell us the benefit of having brain banks. What can we learn through brain banks? To some of us the idea is quite gory, but to others it's the stuff life is made of because it's a wonderful source of information and potential new findings. I would suggest that like everything in our proposal for a brain strategy, we need to begin a process of consultation, of convening some of those conversations, so we know what the really important issues are and come up with some ideas of how to move forward.
On December 7th, 2010. See this statement in context.