I'll be blunt. My simple perception was that it was because of bureaucracy. They told me that it wasn't their mandate, that it was possibly CIHI's mandate, and that I should take this idea to CIHI and try to get CIHI to engage. It just seemed absurd that an individual was trying to be the liaison between two government bodies that were responsible for approving the safety of a device and tracking health outcomes in Canadians, and it was my responsibility to coordinate that.
I can't answer the question “Why?”, but it was like hitting my head against a wall.