Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Health Canada has a minimum of eight years of understanding exactly what the appetite of Parliament is in terms of this issue. It has had much longer than eight years to understand the appetite of the pharmaceutical industry to want to limit disclosure and transparency. It has had much more than eight years of understanding the Canadian public's appetite to want to expand transparency.
I would like to have this included in our report, as to whether or not Health Canada's meeting what the broad objectives were originally within the Health Canada study of increased transparency.
Would you be able to explain to us or provide and maybe table to this committee not just that you have an action plan and are committed to it, but spell out to us exactly what is in the action plan? When will disclosure occur, not only for clinical trials but for marketed drugs? What information will be disclosed? How often will that information be disclosed? Can you tell us, how is it disclosed, and quite frankly, whether or not it is done in a routine and regular basis, and how inclusive it is—whether or not all drugs are being summarized or being posted or published on a regular basis, and not just whether or not intermittent inspections are being published?
Would you commit to being able to table to the committee that comprehensive form of information, providing us with exact, full details—full disclosure—of how Health Canada is going to approach this in the future?