Ladies and gentlemen in the back of the room, I am now asking you to please take your seats or to step out of the room. We have limited time and we can't have people talking in the back.
I want to thank the witnesses on this panel, despite the constant disruptions of today, for having stayed and for having understood that we're going to disrupt again for a vote in the middle of the panel.
We have three different associations representing nurses. They are all different associations with potentially slightly different views, but they've been kind enough to find a way to present in a common way. They'll go one after the other.
We have Maureen Klenk, past president of the Canadian Association of Advanced Practice Nurses; Carolyn Pullen, from the Canadian Nurses Association, who is the director of policy, advocacy, and strategy; and Elaine Borg, from the Canadian Nurses Protective Society, who is the legal counsel.
We have two witnesses presenting as individuals. We have Dianne Pothier, who is a professor emeritus with the Schulich school of law at Dalhousie; and Trudo Lemmens, who is a professor and Scholl chair, health, law, and policy with the faculty of law at the University of Toronto.
Welcome to all of you.
I'm going to ask the different nurses associations to present first.
Before we begin, I need unanimous consent from the committee to proceed while the bells are going until 10 minutes before the vote. Do I have unanimous consent?