Thank you very much.
Thank you to the witnesses for your presentations. I'd like to start by saying that we're disappointed with the decision of the chair to direct the clerk to disinvite Nova Scotia Minister of Health and Wellness Leo Glavine yesterday afternoon, overruling the witness list that was distributed to members on November 29 of last year as described in the Minutes of Proceedings of the November 27 meeting.
This is particularly concerning given the minister's unique expertise and work in the very field we are studying. We hope that this decision is not politically motivated since he is the only witness who was disinvited and the chair has substituted him with another witness who had requested to appear. He did this despite Minister Glavine being one of our top priority witnesses.