Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's very nice to see everybody out this morning for this very important topic.
I want to especially welcome our guests this morning. We're very much looking forward to your insight on the topics we're dealing with this morning.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are doing a study on sodium consumption in the Canadian diet, and for that study we have, from the Dairy Farmers of Canada, Nathalie Savoie, the assistant director of nutrition, national programs. Welcome.
We will also have, from the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, Mr. Reaman. He is not here yet, but we're hoping he will arrive a little later.
From Food and Consumer Products of Canada, we have Phyllis Tanaka, vice-president of scientific and regulatory affairs, food policy. That sounds very onerous, Phyllis.
From the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, we have Stephen Samis, the director of health policy. And from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, we have Dr. Andrew Pipe, chief of the division of prevention and rehabilitation, and professor in the faculty of medicine, University of Ottawa. Welcome.
From the University of Toronto, we have Dr. Mary L'Abbé. Mary is a professor and the chair of the department of nutritional sciences in the faculty of medicine.
Witnesses, I'm going to ask each of you, from each organization, to give a five-minute presentation. Following that, we'll go into our questions and answers, which is a very useful part of the presentations, because committee members do ask the questions they really need to know the answers to.
We'll begin with the Dairy Farmers of Canada, and Nathalie, please.