Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank Mr. Webber for bringing his bill forward and also for wanting to do this study. I agree it's quite worthwhile.
This is near and dear to my heart for different reasons. I practised emergency medicine for 20 years. Unfortunately, I had to have this conversation with families a number of times. I worked in a trauma centre. We saw lots of gunshot wounds and motor vehicle accidents, hence many potential donors. I agree that there are barriers we need to overcome to facilitate this.
I guess the best way to say this is, maybe, to change gears on this. One of the things we like to look at, as well, is prevention. We do know that you can take a burden off any system from both ends, from the supply but also the demand side.
I'll go through each group in turn. First of all, to our friends in B.C., can you pinpoint any diseases or processes that you would say really stand out as causes of people needing organs—for example, diabetes causing kidney failure, alcohol causing liver failure, or anything like that? Are there any disease processes that stand out that, if addressed better, would decrease the need for organs?