I call the meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 13 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health.
Today we will meet 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 on hybrid meetings.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House order of November 25, 2021. Members are attending in person in the room, and some are attending remotely using the Zoom application. Our witnesses are, of course, using the Zoom application.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind all participants to the meeting that screenshots or taking photos of your screen is not permitted. The proceedings will be made available on the House of Commons website.
In accordance with our routine motion, I'm informing the committee that all witnesses have completed the required connection tests in advance of the meeting.
With us this afternoon for two hours are the following witnesses. As individuals, we have Sylas Coletto, registered nurse; and Brenda Payne, experienced nurse, educator, senior executive, and rural and urban consultant. We have Dr. Martin Champagne, hemato-oncologist and president of the Association des médecins hématologues et oncologues du Québec. From the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, we have Giovanna Boniface, president and registered occupational therapist; and Hélène Sabourin, chief executive officer. We also have Cynthia Baker, executive director of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing; and Bradley Campbell, president of Corpus Sanchez International Consultancy Inc.
Thank you to all of our witnesses for taking the time to be with us today.
We're going to begin with opening remarks from each witness in the order they appear in the notice of meeting. This means we're going to start with Mr. Coletto.
For the next five minutes, the floor is all yours. Welcome to the committee.