Thank you, Madam Chair.
Certainly it always strikes me that the older we are the better memories we have of significant diseases from our past that have impacted our families and communities. I think sometimes we forget how important these developments have been, and we tend to lose sight of what happens without immunization, the haemophilus being one that I clearly remember--very grave.
What Dr. Kumar said here a week or two ago when he talked about seeing a couple of young people in his intensive care unit with preventable diseases struck home to me. In a way, his image was very powerful. I think we forget about herd immunity and how well people are protected by the majority taking the vaccine.
Having said that, my first question would be for Dr. Griffiths. Could you elaborate a little bit further in terms of the process for our authorization? Of course, we Canadians, I've noted, in the media have compared ourselves with the United States and said they're earlier. Perhaps you could talk a little bit about the different processes between Canada and the United States.