Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Health. On December 1, impor-
tant elements in the report of the expert advisory committee on the safety of Canada's blood supply system were leaked to and disclosed by the media.
How can the minister explain to us, as mentioned in the report of the expert committee, the blatant lack of rigour in Health Canada's Bureau of Biologics, which has the huge responsibility of checking the quality of blood products and facilities at all 17 transfusion centres of the Canadian Red Cross Society?