Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Health. This morning, we learned that close to 140,000 Canadians might be carrying the hepatitis C virus, several of them through blood transfusions without knowing it. After the contaminated blood scandal, this new problem again raises the issue of public health and safety in the context of blood transfusions.
Does the minister agree with the head of the federal office regulating blood products, who says that it is pointless to try to track down those who received contaminated blood transfusions and now carry the hepatitis C virus, because no vaccine or preventive treatment exist? Does the minister share that opinion?