Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to say thank you to the witnesses for their appearance today.
Mr. Cain, I hope you'll be able to answer these questions.
I was made aware of the work the government is doing under the chemicals management plan on the current state of the science for PFAS in Canada. The government made a science-based decision to exempt a class of fluoropolymers. I'm not an expert on those big words. From the scope of that report....
Actually, can you explain to this committee what those substances are and the rationale behind the decisions to isolate that group of chemicals? Could you also please remind us what the next steps are under the process to focus on substances of concern?