Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the 84th meeting of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, which I'm happy to call to order today. We are beginning a new study tonight. We're studying the federal government policies and guidelines regarding medical inadmissibility of immigrants.
It's a new study, and the committee is gathering information from witnesses as we begin this process. I'm very pleased that we have such a good variety of witnesses tonight coming to help us with this really interesting topic. From the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, we have John Rae and James Hicks. From the Canadian Institute for Health Information, we have Brent Diverty and Chris Kuchciak. We also have Lorne Waldman.
Welcome, Mr. Waldman, via video conference. We're going to begin with Mr. Waldman as our first witness just because, with the technical aspects, things sometimes go wrong. If we begin with you, then we know we have your testimony for sure, but we'd like you to stay around for questions as well.
We'll begin with an opening statement from Mr. Waldman.