Good morning, everybody.
I notice that we're a little past nine o'clock, so we definitely should start now.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are doing our study on health human resources.
Today I'm very pleased that we have, from the Alberta International Medical Graduates Association, Ali Varastehpour, vice-president, and Chander Hariramani, treasurer. It's very nice to have you here. Welcome.
From the Canadian Resident Matching Service we have Jim Boone, general manager and chief executive officer. And from the Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada we have Fleur-Ange Lefebvre, executive director and chief executive officer of that association.
We also have with us, from J.A. Hildes Northern Medical Unit, Dr. Bruce Martin, from the faculty of medicine, University of Manitoba. That's one I'm very familiar with, Dr. Martin. I hear quite a bit about you, because my own daughter wants to go into medicine.
And from the Medical Council of Canada we have Dr. Ian Bowmer, executive director and chief executive officer. We are so pleased to have you here.
We're going to have five-minute presentations from each of the organizations, and following that we'll go into our questions and answers.
We will begin with the Alberta International Medical Graduates Association, Mr. Ali Varastehpour.