Hello again.
We will now resume our work with our second group of witnesses.
I would like to make a few comments for the benefit of our new witnesses. These are housekeeping rules.
Before speaking, please wait until one of the co-chairs recognizes you by name.
This is a reminder that all comments should be addressed through the joint chairs.
When speaking, please speak slowly and clearly. This is for the benefit of our interpreters. Interpretation in this video conference will work like an in-person committee meeting. If you're remote, you have the choice at the bottom of your screen of floor, English or French. The little globe is the interpretation button. When you're not speaking, please keep your microphone on mute.
With that, I would like to welcome our witnesses for the second panel. Again, we're looking at palliative care.
We have online with us Dr. José Pereira, professor and the director of the division of palliative care at the department of family medicine at McMaster University. We have in the room with us Mr. Mike Kekewich, director of the Champlain Regional MAID Network and the Champlain Centre for Health Care Ethics.
I'm not sure I see him yet, but we're hoping to have Dr. Louis Roy.
Dr. Roy represents the Collège des médecins du Québec. He should be arriving any minute now.
With that, thank you all for joining us.
We will start with opening remarks from our three witnesses. We will start with Dr. Pereira. Each witness will have five minutes for opening comments before we go to questions.
Dr. Pereira, you have the microphone for five minutes.