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The final comment I would like to make is that while the government can do a fair bit—and, we believe, for a reasonable amount of dollars—in improving access to organs and tissues, the CNIB still sees a responsibility to cooperate in that effort and perhaps find some funds and resources to assist in that process, and equally so in regard to a new national coordinating body on the prevention of blindness, which has been established with support from Health Canada.

I guess the most obvious difference is with respect to our publicly funded, universally accessible health care system, which presumably should mean, in our case, access to donations strictly on the basis of need.

I'd like to focus in on a couple of things that Dr. Pfaff has mentioned pertaining to, first, the whole area of financial barriers in terms of access to donations, and secondly, the cost pressures on our health care systems.

102. Stresses the fact that, despite repeated invitations, only four MNCs initially agreed to appear before the committee to discuss international tax planning matters, out of a total of 17; considers that the initial refusal of 13 of them – some with high public visibility – to cooperate with a parliamentary committee is unacceptable and highly damaging to the dignity of the European Parliament and the citizens it represents; notes, however, that 11 MNCs finally agreed to come to the committee only after the report had been voted on in the TAXE Committee and shortly before the vote in plenary, while two MNCs persisted in their refusal ...[+++]; recommends, therefore, that its competent authorities consider depriving these companies from their access to Parliament’s premises and that serious consideration be given to setting up a clear framework and upgrading the duties set out in the Code of Conduct for organisations included in the Transparency Register , in terms of cooperation with Parliament’s committees and other political bodies;