We will begin.
I want to welcome our witnesses. Thank you very much.
I would ask everybody to welcome our witnesses to committee.
Dr. Earl Hershfield, professor of medicine, University of Manitoba, welcome. I'm glad to see you here.
Dr. Pamela Orr, professor, department of medicine as well, is here from the University of Manitoba. Welcome to you. I always like to see people from my home province.
We also have, from the Canadian Lung Association, Dr. Brian Graham, chair of the chronic disease policy. Welcome, Dr. Graham. I'm very happy to see you here.
From the Canadian Public Health Association, we have Elaine Randell, communicable disease consultant from Nunavut. Thank you so much for joining us, Elaine.
We have James Chauvin, policy director with the Canadian Public Health Association. Thank you for joining us as well, James.
From the Canadian Society for International Health, we have Janet Hatcher Roberts, executive director. Welcome.
And from the University of Alberta, we welcome Dr. Anne Fanning, professor emeritus, faculty of medicine.
We feel very honoured and very privileged to have you here. We're going to keep our presentations to three to five minutes. I'm sorry, but I will have to watch the time; I can't have one person or one committee member monopolizing it. We need to be able to get in all the questions and all the presentations.
Thank you for being patient.
Dr. Hershfield.