Mr. Speaker, despite the fiscal challenges we face as a government, much is being done in terms of breast cancer.
Among other things, we have formed partnerships in order to have more dollars to put into a broad range of research projects. We have among others the Canadian breast cancer research initiative, which is a broad partnership of Health Canada, the Medical Research Council, the National Cancer Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Cancer Society.
Additional funds are also being invested by the corporate breast cancer fund started by the Royal Bank. It is estimated that this partnership will generate approximately $55 million toward breast cancer research in the near future. Is it enough? It is never enough, but we will continue to work very diligently toward finding more dollars to look into this very serious disease.