Madam Speaker, I have a petition from constituents who are concerned about kidney disease as it relates to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. They know that the Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes, which is one of the Canadian institutes network, does fine work toward kidney research. For example, it supports research to enhance health in relation to diet, digestion, excretion and metabolism. My constituents feel that fine work would be better received by the public and better known in the public if the words kidney research were included in the title of the institute.
The petitioners 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.