Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Charlottetown as well. Certainly, as he is the chair of the health committee, we often have our differences, but I would say he is most often fair and sometimes even kind. I know that is a big admission.
That being said, as we look at the evidence, one of the studies we talked about specifically was a 2022 study published in Current Oncology, which states that the current Canadian breast cancer screening guidelines, initially published in 2011 by the Canadian task force, pose a dangerous threat to Canadian women's health. It goes on to say the screening guidelines are based on ancient data, from as early as the 1960s, that provided the recommendation that screening for an average-risk woman begin at age 50.
It is incredibly important that when new evidence becomes available, it is adopted as quickly as possible. Even these task force recommendations are from 2011.
I think it is sad we have to have political intervention in a scientific area of expertise because those scientists refuse to be different and do the job they are asked to do on behalf of Canadians. When we know lives are at stake, it is incredibly important that things change today, not tomorrow.