Mr. Speaker, today and every week day in Canada three families will sit in their doctor's office and be told that their child has cancer.
Some 850 children are diagnosed every year and 135 will die. The parents will be told that the prognosis and treatment will depend on the results of a bone scan. Bone scans for children require technetium-99. There is no safe alternative.
Will the minister guarantee that the children with cancer will get the scans they need when they need them?