Mr. Speaker, I have another petition from citizens of the Peterborough area in support of research toward a bioartificial kidney, which they see as ultimately replacing kidney transplants and dialysis as a means of treating end stage kidney disease.
They call upon parliament to work toward and support bioartificial kidney research.
The last petition also relates to kidney research. The petitioners point out that kidney disease is an enormous and growing problem. They 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.