Thank you, Mr. Chair. After two and half years, you now know that my questions will indeed be in French.
First, I want to thank all of you for being here with us.
This is an extremely interesting topic. Whenever we do research, we learn a lot of things. As you have all mentioned, we can do better.
The research I did about the increase in the number of donors, and the questions I put to several other witnesses from Quebec, British Columbia and Ontario, allowed me to discover that a lot of work is done in isolation. Everyone does the best possible work, since we have considerable expertise, but my impression is that expertise is not always disseminated in an accessible and user-friendly way. In fact, several meetings are held to share information, but certain measures may not be taken, or perhaps there are things that remain to be done.
I'd like to understand a bit better and see if I am mistaken. How do you see things from your side? Have any actions been undertaken? What are your priorities to increase the number of donations and the success rate of these donations?
As we know, not everyone is a compatible donor. I am not going to name anyone, but someone told me that we had almost already reached the annual maximum number of potential donors, and this disturbed me a bit. I told myself that if that is the case, even if we reach the ideal number of donors, 200 to 225, there would still be 4,000 people on the waiting list.
How can we combine all that and reach a result that will allow us to save as many lives as possible? The primary purpose is indeed to save as many lives as possible through organ donations from living or deceased donors.
I've talked enough. I'm going to give Mr. Levy and the others a chance to answer.