Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for the question.
I agree with him that it will take a long time to recover from a decade that lacked investment in health care across this country under the former Conservative government. We are doing our best to make up for lost time.
In the case of conditions such as Alzheimer's, where people have to anticipate how they might feel if they have a condition, it is much harder to do those assessments. We heard this from practitioners who work very closely with patients in all kinds of situations. They said that when people anticipate how they might feel when suffering from a particular condition, they can be dramatically wrong. When people arrive there, they do not have the kinds of feelings they might think they have when they have, for example, a traumatic injury.
For this reason, we believe that advance requests require further study so we understand the implications from a patient perspective and a practitioner perspective.