Thank you very much, Madam Chair and another exciting panel.
I wanted to start off talking to Dr. Hudson.
First, it's great to see another Waterloo graduate around the table. I want to talk about your research on natural health solutions to common psychiatric disorders, the natural source tryptophan and essential fatty acids. Since I've been here in Ottawa, I've seen a huge rise in prescriptions for antidepressants that seems to be out of control. Sleeping pills are out of control, as is pain medication and stuff like that. We heard Dr. Brindle talk about different fish oils and different botanical stuff like that.
With your product, the reason I'm really interested is that it seems we're looking at technological innovation and you're somebody who has been successful taking more of a natural type of thing and being successful getting it out there.
I was wondering what the challenges are when you're looking at venture capital to study natural health products and things along these lines or things along the lines that you would like to see being utilized a little bit more. You mentioned that physicians have to be more entrepreneurial. Maybe we could even save a lot of money if we used more natural products instead of pharmaceuticals, as well as avoid addiction issues and stuff like that. I was wondering if you could comment on the difficulty of venture capital with the natural health products.