Thank you, Chair.
This is the first time I have subbed in to this committee or any virtual committee, and of course my first disappointment is that it doesn't have all the power we would normally have. Certainly if we did, I'd be making a motion right now and supporting Dr. Kitchen's thoughts around the issue of the CEWS and the CERB.
You're paying money for one versus the other, and you get so much value out of the other. I would have loved to be able to make a recommendation to the government that they need to perhaps broaden that criteria.
I really appreciate that testimony, because you spelled out the case very clearly. It can't be a motion of committee, but certainly I think that as independent MPs, if we feel strongly about it, we should all take the opportunity to move that forward.
My first question would be perhaps to Ms. Seale of the Canadian Cancer Society.
It's very tragic. There's a young woman who is dying of cancer and receiving care at home, but of course no one is visiting her because of COVID. Is there any mechanism or is a system in place—and do you have access to PPE, proper equipment—whereby people in palliative care, in their home environments or others, can have visitors? What a terrible thing to be dying alone at home without people coming to visit.
Is there a system in place? Is there adequate protective equipment so that we can have those sorts of visits?