Hon. Sharon Burey: Colleagues, I rise today to speak to Bill S-280, An Act respecting a national framework on sickle cell disease.

This national framework must include measures to increase awareness, address training needs, create a national research network and a national registry, ensure equitable access to neonatal screening and consider an analysis of the financial impact on patients and families.

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I will be speaking as the critic of this bill and, colleagues, this is my first attempt at being a critic.