Mr. Chair, I would like some clarification and to ask a question.
The member opposite was talking about the first phone call and that the first person served gets the kidney. Organ donation or stem cell donation are a little more complicated than that. To get a match is extremely difficult.
We searched far and wide in our family. It was two and a half years before my husband actually got a match. It was five years from the time he first learned of the cancer. Then all sorts of things have to be done. Is it a compatible match? All sorts of things happen. It is not first come, first served at all. It is a registry.
As I said in my speech, there are two registries that are forming in Canada. One is for the hard to match kidney, and one is for all non-kidney patients across Canada. On top of that, there is the living donor registry.
However, we need to do more and that is why we are here tonight. That is why we are putting the spotlight and focus on it.
Is the member aware that this will be a good step forward? Is there anything else she would like to add to that?