Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
If you'll allow us, we'll make this presentation. This is an issue that is obviously very serious. It is also a complex issue. We hope it will be time well spent for the committee to go through some of these slides, which represent a bit of what we have learned as we have approached this issue and that give a sense of the global background in terms of both the demand and the supply of medical isotopes.
This will not answer all of the questions that I'm sure the members will have through the day, but perhaps will situate the discussion a bit. I hope it will be helpful to the committee.
Diagnostic imaging, of course, is a vitally important tool in assessing patients--