Madam Chair, I came to the Hill to fight for neurological disease. That is why I started a subcommittee on neurological disease. For the past four weeks, I have not been to bed before 4 a.m., as I have talked to 1,000 patients across the country who are desperate. Some are suicidal. They are separated from their life. They are separated from their family and friends. They are separated from their dignity. They are fighting for their life.
There is only one think worse than having MS, is having MS and knowing there is diagnosis to treatment out there, but they cannot get it. It is unconscionable that Canadians are being forced to go overseas to Poland, to mortgage their homes in order to get the treatment that they should be getting in our country.