I call the meeting to order.
It being 8:45, we will start the proceedings. We are going to hear from an array of witnesses today, and after that we are going to do some committee business.
Our witnesses today are Mr. Ake Blomqvist, health policy scholar from the C.D. Howe Institute, and Victor Elkins and Chandra Pasma from the Canadian Union of Public Employees. Appearing as individuals are Colleen Flood, professor, university research chair, and director of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, and Mélanie Bourassa Forcier, professor and director of health law and policy programs at Université de Sherbrooke.
I am going to invite Mr. Blomqvist to have his five-minute opening statement. After that, we'll go to the next ones, and then we'll have questions.