Welcome to committee, everyone.
I am Joy Smith, the chair. Welcome to all of our guests today.
I want to say to members that I know a lot of you have flown in today. Members are telling me they wish to have some fruit and so on for our next meeting. I want to let you know that we are going to have some food at our meetings to help you out a little bit. If everyone is in agreement, please raise your hands. Good.
Now we'll start with the orders of the day: Standing Order 108(2), a study of chronic diseases related to aging.
We're very pleased today to welcome our witnesses. From Baycrest, we have William Reichman, president and chief executive officer. Thank you, Dr. Reichman, for being here. It's a pleasure to welcome you.
From the Emergency Medical Services Chiefs of Canada, we have Mr. Michael Nolan, the president. Thank you for joining us today to give us your insightful information.
As individuals, we have Professor François Béland, Department of Health Administration at the University of Montreal. Thank you for being here. And of course Dr. Mark Rosenberg, a professor from the Department of Geography and Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at Queen's University.
We will begin with ten-minute presentations and we'll start with Dr. William Reichman, please.