Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of Health, and I hope I will have better luck than the hon. member for Drummond.
A group of international experts was recently assigned to the Krever Commission on tainted blood to do a comparative study of the best blood supply systems in the world and make recommendations to improve the blood products supply systems in Canada.
Why does the minister provide very substantial amounts of money for these international experts, while the Canadian Hemophilia Society is still waiting to receive the money it needs to adequately represent its own members before the Commission?