Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to welcome both ministers to our committee. I'm going to start with Minister Bennett.
Minister Bennett, in your opening remarks, you talked about the $45-million investment for national standards. As my colleague MP Sidhu was following up, in an announcement on March 14, you talked about the Standards Council of Canada and the fact that they will be working with various stakeholders.
Can you explain to me how these standards are going to help with the following? We know the investment in mental health as part of a total health transfer is an area of interest for a lot of us. We know that there are a lot of gaps in the timelines and the delivery of the services. A lot of the constituents in my health community council are talking about transparency, accountability and regular reporting, as well as benchmarks that right now we don't have, whether they are against some of the leading countries or even nationally here.
Can you explain to us how these standards are going to help us? Thank you.