Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I would like to welcome all of you and to thank you as well for your evidence because I also know that it is not easy to appear here to provide this kind of testimony.
Mr. Small, it is a great pleasure to see you. I asked to have you appear here by means of a summons. I have very specific questions concerning your task and role at Maplehurst prison and Vanier prison. I really have some very specific questions.
I have met a number of individuals who spent time in your prisons, in particular Maplehurst, more specifically men. The men I met all told me they had been vaccinated at your prison without their consent. Is that a normal procedure? Was there an epidemic at your prison? How is it that these people were vaccinated or that they were injected with something without being told what it was and especially without their oral consent? They said they did not want to be injected with anything, but that was done. Explain that to me. I am all ears.