Thank you.
I just want to appreciate the opportunity to be here with you folks today and to listen. Obviously, it's a concern of a number of folks. We talk about public health; it's always a concern for all of us. You said there will always be surprises. Because of travel, because of global trade that is happening, I suspect surprises will be coming more often. I suspect, because of the poverty and some of the things around the world that are not reflected as much in Canada, that those surprises will not always be as easy to detect, and I appreciate that.
One of the things the Auditor General talks about on page 8, 5.17, is that there are nationally notifiable diseases. The top 60 diseases formed the updated list published in October of 2006, and the provinces and territories have agreed to report cases of these diseases to the agency voluntarily. How is this list monitored? Is it continually updated? Is there a concern in terms of some? We're always concerned when we miss the mark and a disease hasn't been detected. Is there concern that you overreact on something that really isn't an issue but could actually become a national concern?
I'll leave it at that for now.