Thank you very much, Chairperson.
First, thank you to Ms. Davidson for coming to the committee, and to the witnesses.
We've been very pleased to support the bill, and today we'll kind of go through it in detail, and the amendments.
I have two questions. If the bill goes through, presumably with the amendments, I wonder if you could describe really clearly what it means for consumers. How will it actually change what they do, or will it at all? Some of you talked about the importance of fitting and having that professional oversight. I'm not clear whether or not these amendments will actually have that effect, whether they will change anything consumers do in terms of how they are purchasing these products or how they are fitted or not.
The second question is in terms of education. Who will actually do that? Everybody has mentioned it. I don't mean sort of a passive education in terms of information on a website where you have to wait for people to go somewhere, like Health Canada or maybe one of the associations. Is there a sense that education would then be carried out in a more proactive way, and if so, who would do that? Is it Health Canada, is it your associations, or is it all of you together? To me, if it's not sort of out there, then probably there will be very little awareness, even though you might have some education.
Could any of you address those two points?