Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to present two petitions from citizens of the Peterborough area who are concerned about kidney disease as a serious problem in Canada. These citizens would like to see the name of the Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes changed. This is our national institute which within the Canadian Institutes of Health Research is responsible for kidney research.
My constituents know that it does fine work, but they believe that it would be better if its name included the word kidney because then the public would understand what fine work it does. These citizens call upon parliament to encourage the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to explicitly include kidney research as one of the institutes in its system to be named the institute of kidney and urinary tract diseases.