Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to meeting number 10 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health. Today, we will be meeting for two hours to hear from witnesses on our study of Canada's health workforce.
Before I introduce today's witnesses, I have a few regular reminders for hybrid meetings. Actually, I think we can dispense with the reminders, because we have all of our members present, and the witnesses who are appearing virtually have all appeared before. In the interest of brevity, we're going to go right to our witnesses.
We have with us today the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health; and the Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health.
Online, from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, we have Sylvie Lapointe, vice-president, policy and programs branch. From the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, we have Michael J. Strong, president. From the Department of Health, we have Stephen Lucas, deputy minister. From the Public Health Agency of Canada, we have Harpreet S. Kochhar, president; and Dr. Theresa Tam, chief public health officer.
Thank you for taking the time to appear today.
We will begin with opening remarks from each of the ministers, beginning with Minister Duclos.
Minister, welcome to the committee. You have the floor for five minutes.