Health committee  That's the problem. By implementing reporting, we would get a proper sense of the problem. Right now it's hard to understand how many patients are going out. Because of doctor-patient confidentiality, we're not capturing this information.

Health committee  What I've been told by my colleagues in the field is that they are seeing—

Health committee  Yes. The general sense is that there is less of this. I don't want to diminish the problem, but it is something on which I think there is a role for the federal government to play. I'm happy to share the recommendations with this committee.

Health committee  We would be glad to share our results as well as all the progress we've made in the last five years. We also need to consider the new technology that is changing the way transplants are done in Canada today, not tomorrow. Our goal is to eliminate, 10 years from now, the wait tim

Health committee  The scope of organ trafficking is one that I think, on the positive side, has decreased lately. It is still a problem. There are many countries in the world where they do illegal organ trafficking. It is still a problem that we need to address, but at least it's decreasing. One o

Health committee  I can answer. Seeing all of these organizations here working together gives me hope. This is recent. When the Canadian national transplant research program was created, it was the first time that we brought researchers working on organ donations together with those working on tr

Health committee  That resulted in over 2,000 transplants because of those donors.

Health committee  It is.

Health committee  If we look at what we can do at the national level, considering the provincial and federal jurisdictions, I think we have the right elements already in place in this country. I think we just need to support and enhance these resources. Canadian Blood Services is the group that ca

Health committee  In terms of addressing the patient-researcher partnership, one of the things we have done, I think successfully in our network, is to look at ways to bring patients and families as co-researchers into our studies—not as participants, not as people we are studying, but as people w

Health committee  In looking at deceased donation, we need to realize that this is an incredibly rare opportunity. The conditions under which someone can become a deceased donor are the result of probably only 1% of the deaths that happen per year in Canada. About 270,000 Canadians die per year an

Health committee  We've done research, and we've published guidelines over the last couple of years explicitly stating that this is something that can be done and that we want to make sure that these donors are captured.