Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to thank our colleague from the Liberal Party for being here. Normally we wait for recommendations from witnesses, we usually don't plant them ahead of time, because the committee talks together and comes up with recommendations. But there were certainly some good points put out there, some of them within provincial jurisdiction, though, and we do have to be careful of that.
I am very pleased to hear your testimony today, and the good news that Canada is a leader in the world. I do have to ask, though, Dr. Krewski, because you come from the R.S. McLaughlin Centre.... As you know, I'm the MP for Oshawa, and he's our most famous citizen, so it's nice to see that the wonderful things that he brought, not only to my community, have been spread out across our great country.
I know you've received funding from the government to lead this study, a team of researchers from across Canada conducting the systematic review of factors influencing the onset and progression of 14 neurological diseases, and you did go over a review of that, or a little synopsis of it. But it's such a big project, it's so important, not only for Canada but for the world, and I was wondering if you could expand a little bit on how the project is going.
Also, after you get all this data together, how is it going to be applied by clinicians on the ground, and how is it going to help with the management of these conditions over the next few years, which are so important with the demographic changes?