I call this meeting to order.
This is meeting number 55 of the Standing Committee on Health.
I want to thank all our witnesses for coming today. I apologize for the delay; these things happen here. I hope it doesn't inconvenience you too much, and I want to thank you for your patience. We will go later than we had planned. I hope that's all right with everybody.
Today, first we'll be studying Bill C-211, an act respecting a federal framework on post-traumatic stress disorder.
Our witnesses today include Dr. Anne-Marie Ugnat, executive director of the centre for surveillance and applied research in the health promotion and chronic disease prevention branch of the Public Health Agency of Canada. Welcome.
By video conference, we have Dr. Jitender Sareen, professor of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba. Thank you very much for taking the time to do this.
As an individual, we also have Natalie Harris, advanced care paramedic in the county of Simcoe.
We'll offer you the opportunity to make a maximum of 10 minutes of opening remarks, and after that we'll go to questions.
We'll start with Dr. Ugnat.