I welcome everybody to meeting 131 of the Standing Committee on Health. We will go until about 5:10 and then go in camera for a little bit of committee business.
First of all, I want to thank our witnesses today for coming to help us with this new study.
From the Department of Heath, we have Abby Hoffman, Assistant Deputy Minister, back again after several visits.
We have from the Department for Women and Gender Equality, Lisa Smylie, Director, Research and Evaluation, Results and Delivery Unit.
From the Department of Indigenous Services Canada, we have Valerie Gideon for another return engagement. Thank you very much. She is Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch. We also have Dr. Tom Wong, Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer of Public Health.
We're going to have two opening statements, one by Ms. Hoffman and one by Ms. Gideon.
Ms. Hoffman, if you would like to open with a 10-minute statement, we'll start our meeting.