Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
And thank you for all of those very interesting presentations.
I want to spend about an hour discussing your presentations with each of you, but I have five minutes.
Let me start on the issue of health care. I completely agree, and I think it's completely intuitive that to reduce our health care costs and be more effective for Canadians, we need to promote wellness and we need to be more preventive in our approach. I'd like to hear you give a couple more examples. I know something that has been raised with me, for example, is the issue of midwives—that if there were greater recognition of midwifery across the country, especially in first nations communities, we would reduce our health care costs tremendously and really promote well-being, especially amongst mothers and newborns.
Could you talk very briefly about the impact of some preventive measures and specifically address the midwives issue?