Thank you very much, Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe.
We'll continue.
Réjean Hébert is a professor in the school of public health at the Université de Montréal. He was a member of the chief science adviser's task force on long-term care, again, talking about recommendations for how we address the challenges of combatting COVID-19 in long-term care homes.
Then we have Mr. Richard Shimooka. He is a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and he writes extensively on the Canadian Armed Forces.
We have Madam Michelle van Beusekom, who is a co-founder of Protect People in Long-Term Care. It's an ad hoc citizen's group formed in April of 2020 to encourage decisive action to address COVID-19 in long-term care facilities.
Then we have two officials from the Department of National Defence, namely, Colonel Scott Malcolm, deputy surgeon general, and Major Karoline Martin. She was the commanding officer for the Canadian Armed Forces personnel deployed into long-term care homes.
Considering the number of witnesses before us today, I have asked them to try to limit their introductory remarks to five minutes. However, considering that some had already prepared 10-minute speaking notes or background documents, I would like to seek the members' agreement that the longer documents, once translated, will be provided by the witnesses to be appended to the evidence of this meeting.