Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thanks to our guests for being here today.
I have a bit of a health care background, at least in management. I've been a hospital board chairman for a number of years in Alberta. With regard to some of the types of things that happen, there has to be an acute awareness of health and safety needs. So I guess the things that I want to focus on are transparency and timeliness. I guess when you're taking a look at the information about health and safety that's stemming from authorized clinical trials, it's important that people are participating in these trials and that they get information back about what has taken place.
With this in mind, I would appreciate it if the deputy minister could advise the committee on how Canadians can be assured that Health Canada has taken the necessary steps to improve the amount of information that is being shared with the public?