There are two things. One is that the initial call was very favourably responded to by the current government, with an investment of $50 million to the Public Health Agency to do research to better understand the distribution of the population. How many people are affected? What are the economic consequences of the distribution?
We don't know those data in Canada, unlike the situation with cancer or cardiovascular health. It's by coming together as a group of neurological health charities that these studies and the Public Health Agency have now focused attention on neurological diseases.
In addition, we have asked for a $2 million commitment and the partnership of the federal government to develop a national brain strategy. That request has been made. This brain strategy would have many components: genetic equity, research in neurological diseases, issues of income security, and obviously the very important issues of impacts on the family.
The caregiving impact is one of them, but there are broader impacts on family structures; one of the witnesses spoke about the rate of divorce, for instance. Those issues are very important.