Thank you.
I'd like to thank the committee for inviting me here. I'm speaking on behalf of the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society. The CFAS provides the leadership, we believe, in reproductive health. We include physicians and laboratory staff, nurses, psychologists, and counsellors, as well as patients, patient support groups, and so on. Therefore, we represent the stakeholders who are the providers of infertility care, as well as the recipients of infertility care.
With regard to the current proposed regulations, without reiterating what Dr. Lalonde, Dr. Caulfield, and Dr. Baylis have all said already, we broadly agree with the proposals. We feel that they reflect current best practice in IV centres and ART centres in Canada at the moment, and therefore, with the exception of some concerns about the language of what is actually written, we tend to support these.
Thank you.