I call the meeting to order. This is our first meeting on M-47.
I also want to say that we tabled Bill C-277 this morning, and that went smoothly. Congratulations. That's the eighth report of our committee.
We are starting M-47 today, and we have a bit of a change in our witness list from the schedule. One witness is not able to be here, for personal reasons. I understand we are also having technical difficulties with Pennsylvania.
In any case, we're going to start. We have Professor Jacqueline Gahagan, interim director and assistant dean in the Faculty of Health Professions at Dalhousie University. Welcome. We also have Kathleen Hare, doctoral student in the department of language and literacy education at the University of British Columbia. We have both ends of the country represented here, and we are very pleased to have you.
Eventually, we are hoping to have Dr. Mary Anne Layden, director of the sexual trauma and pychopathology program in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, but we have not successfully made the hookup yet.
I want to welcome you to our committee. Each of you has a 10-minute opening statement.
I understand that Ms. Hare is going to start.