Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to our guests, our presenters, today. We're very, very happy to have you here today. We are going to listen to our witnesses and each group will have seven minutes per organization
We have the Brain Injury Association of Canada here, with Richard Kinar and Harry Zarins. Hi, Harry, nice to see you again.
We also have the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs, with Kim Ayotte and Vicky Roper; and there is the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, with Ondina Love—a beautiful name—and Chantal Kealey. Welcome to you.
Also, we have the Canadian Consumer Specialty Products Association, Shannon Coombs, the president; and from McGill University, Joe Schwarcz, director of the Office for Science and Society.
We will start with the Brain Injury Association. You have seven minutes. We're going to hear from each of the organizations, and then we'll go into a round of questions following that.
Mr. Kinar, please go ahead.