Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you for being with us again.
Certainly when I think of ALS I think of my good friend Derek Walton. I'd be remiss not to mention him. He's certainly sparked a lot of interest from the community I come from in Barrie, where he skydives every year to raise funds for Sunnybrook's research. I'm sure there are volunteers like Derek across the country. That's one of the special things about your association, to see how people facing adversity sacrifice so much for research and to move the yardstick forward, and hopefully our committee can be helpful in that as well.
There were a few things mentioned I took interest in. It was mentioned that you had some previous partnerships with a muscular dystrophy.... What type of work did you do with MD? I know the firefighters across Canada do a lot of research with MD, and I didn't realize there maybe were some overlapping areas. What commonalities are there?