Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I too welcome you here today. It's been very interesting hearing from such a wide range of presenters and trying to figure out to focus on when you get to ask questions.
I have an observation regarding the presentations I'm going to focus on, Ms. Eng's and certainly that given by our palliative care people. I appreciate the fact that the two groups had some complementary recommendations.
You made a statement about the sizable amount of funding--$25 billion--it will take to implement some of the recommendations. I think rather than looking to my colleagues across the way to give us an accurate number regarding what their announcement is going to cost Canadians, I would appreciate hearing from you a little bit more detailed accounting with regard to where you came up with your number and your observation.
Then I'd like to move to our folks from the palliative and compassionate care group.
I'm a founding member of the parliamentary committee on palliative and compassionate care, so I'm very pleased to see you presenting to us again today. I know we focused more on recommendation number 3 in your brief, but I'd like to ask you to focus on recommendation number 4, because I think you came forward with a pretty significant recommendation last year, which is referenced in your brief. I'd like you to speak to that as well.
Could we hear from Ms. Eng first?