Thank you, Chair, and thank you to all of our witnesses for being here today.
Mr. Falconer, I really appreciated your testimony. My interest in inviting you to this committee was—earlier during the pandemic—specific to an article you had in one of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute publications on accreditation of physicians. You were concerned that.... I believe the title of the article had “brain waste” within it.
It seemed the crux of your article was the concern that the current government was not providing enough oversight, or provisions in the pandemic environment to allow those with much-needed medical designations, skills and experience from other nations to achieve accreditation and to be used completely and effectively for the pandemic response.
I was hoping you might be able to share your findings from that article, as well as some of the information in that article with the group here as we reflect upon the lessons of COVID-19 and prepare for future similar scenarios.