Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I can certainly talk about Ontario, and I think other regions are certainly working on it. They probably haven't got it to the stage yet where we are, but in Ontario we've had consultations. The Ontario government announced start-up funding for a new Ontario brain institute last

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  — and our NHCC committee has been working very closely with that. I think, from the point of view of a Parkinson Society Canada model, we are using that to work with our regional partners from British Columbia to St. John's, Newfoundland, to do the same kinds of things with the

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Absolutely.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Exactly.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Absolutely.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Absolutely.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  The demands for the applications are very significant. She was on our board for a while. She would come to our board meeting, and she would be up till two or three in the morning writing a proposal that was due the next day or two days from then. So I would say the amount of ti

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  From a Parkinson's perspective, and that's probably the best one I can share with you, the researcher has a time limit in which she or he has to submit the documentation, put it all together, and then our researchers come two at a time to review all these proposals, and they do i

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  I honestly can't help you with that. There are so many of them that it would be difficult. We could probably put one together and give you an idea of the kind of thing we didn't fund, but to answer that question, it would be difficult.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  From Parkinson Society Canada's peer review process, I would say there were probably 16 different projects that should have been funded, that were rated highly enough by the reviewers. How many of those, in terms of what we left on the table... That's happening every year, so the

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Absolutely. I had the opportunity of visiting one of our smaller researchers at Laval this past summer. I was overwhelmed by the small amount of space, but then we started to talk about the amount of time she spends on this. I would say that well over 80% of her time is spent try

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. There are probably two areas. One is my big bugaboo, and that's research. Currently NHCC is in the process of finalizing a policy proposal for a $600-million joint public-private partnership. I think coming from the world of the YMCA, partnerships is a ve

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thank you.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Absolutely.

Subcommittee on Neurological Disease committee  Thank you so much.