Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to all of the witnesses for being here and for also joining us online. This is a super-important topic of conversation, and we're really grateful for all of your expertise.
I'm going to focus the first half of my questions on childhood obesity and the role that poverty and the lack of physical activity interventions play in contributing to childhood obesity.
We know that kids in the United States suffer disproportionately from obesity and fewer opportunities to be physically active and healthy. We've heard—as recently as this morning, actually, in a CBC article—of some of the really aggressive things the United States is considering around reducing childhood obesity with health care interventions like drugs and surgery for little kids.
Can anybody speak to the opportunity of investing more money and resources into kids in their early days, perhaps through their daily lives at school, or other opportunities to be physically active and have access to healthier food so that we wouldn't have to intervene in a kid's life with a health care intervention like bariatric surgery or drugs in order to deal with something that is so preventable?