Mr. Speaker, I thank the member of Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge for everything that he and other members of the House have done on the subject of awareness of organ donation.
Earlier today I took part in a very moving ceremony at Rideau Hall, at which Her Excellency the Governor General as patron kicked off a week to increase public awareness of the need for organ donation in Canada. There were some real heroes there, heroes who are members of families of those who have given organs, relatives, and indeed recipients of organs themselves.
They demonstrate the importance of organ donation. We must raise awareness. Twenty million dollars last week was confirmed by the Government of Canada as an investment for a national strategy. We must increase organ donations in Canada.