Mr. Speaker, May is multiple sclerosis awareness month.
While treatment continues to improve and new medication helps to change the course of the disease and reduce symptoms, we still cannot, even today, either cure or prevent multiple sclerosis.
This illness affects 50,000 people in Canada, particularly women, and arrives unannounced causing distress to all those in its path. Neither the most solid family life nor the best orchestrated career plans escape its shadow.
In support of the work of the many researchers, our financial contributions are important, but they can never replace our physical support and our affection, which make the suffering of MS victims and their families a little easier to bear.
To all MS sufferers, I would say there is hope, hope that pushes us on in the fight to see the light at the end of the tunnel.