Health committee  Yes. Thank you so much, Laila. Obviously, Breast Cancer Canada would like to see the age lowered to 40 for all the reasons that both the doctors recommended. I think at the age of 40, although women can make up their mind, it is about that prompt. This is what we hear from the patients every day.

Health committee  I think there's a lot of research data. There is perhaps some shortage of some data in Canada due to the fact that we haven't always tracked ethnicity. We do now. Certainly, to the south of us there are a number of research studies. I would encourage the task force to take a look at those.

Health committee  Certainly. I don't think they have less access to screening. I think we need to do everything to encourage every woman who has access to be screened. I also believe there should be an opportunity for women of Black and Hispanic descent to have a more in-depth review of their family history and the opportunity to be encouraged to screen.

Health committee  Thank you. Thank you very much for having me here and for the opportunity to speak on the important topic that this is. My name is Kimberly Carson, and I'm the chief executive officer of Breast Cancer Canada. Breast Cancer Canada is the only national organization that's clearly focused on funding breast cancer research, and we've been doing that since 1991.