Mr. Chair, I greatly appreciate the comments that the hon. member made. Obviously, his sister is open-minded and if she could access this, she certainly would.
The issue here is with regard to the studies. There are only going to be about 40 to 50 studies done a year and it takes a very long time. Meanwhile, people's lives are being lost. Dr. Sandy McDonald did indicate that he sees this as a plumbing problem. This procedure has been done for years for the same type of problem, but because a person has MS, they are being denied, so what he is saying is that we do not wait for the electrician to fix the plumbing.
Does the member not agree that we should be treating CCSVI differently, as a separate illness from MS?