Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the health committee. I am so pleased to see everybody here today.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we have a study on the impact of microwaves on human health. It is something this committee has wanted to pick up on and continue for some time. I am very pleased that the witnesses have been able to come today.
From the Department of Health, we have Beth Pieterson, director general, environmental and radiation health sciences directorate, healthy environments and consumer safety branch.
Welcome, Beth.
We also have with us Frank Prato, imaging program leader, assistant scientific director, from the Lawson Health Research Institute,
I'm so glad you could make it as well.
We also have, from the Simcoe County Safe School Committee, Rodney Palmer, who is a member.
Thank you for joining us today.
Joining us as an individual we have Anthony Martin Muc, adjunct lecturer at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, occupational and environmental health unit, University of Toronto.
You were here before. Welcome back. It's nice to see you here again.
Via video conference we have two guests. Curtis Bennett is president of Thermographix Consulting Corporation.
Welcome, Curtis. I'm glad you're here.
Also, from Columbia University, coming to us from Victoria, British Columbia, we have Dr. Martin Blank, associate professor of physiology and cellular biophysics, department of physiology and cellular biophysics.
We're very happy that all of you can be here. We will give you five minutes for a presentation from each organization. Then we'll have questions and answers. At the end of the committee meeting, at 12:45, I will suspend because we have some business we have to do for the final 15 minutes.
We will begin with Ms. Pieterson, please, for five minutes.