Mr. Speaker, I would like to correct the record on the fearmongering today about cancelled surgeries. A news story said:
Nine elective cardiac surgeries were cancelled...because physicians erroneously feared they could run out of a critical drug and not have enough for emergencies.
However, Vancouver Coastal Health has said:
—the cancellations were unnecessary because there was a five-week supply of the drug protamine available in B.C. and the manufacturer Sandoz has committed to increasing its shipments of the drug to B.C. later this month.
Certainly the information and fearmongering is incorrect.
Does the member see any problems with Sandoz having 95% sole-sourced contracts to the provinces and could she perhaps explain how further regulation would have prevented the fire at that plant?