Good morning, everybody. I call the meeting to order.
Welcome to the 14th meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.
We are continuing our study on operational stress injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder in public safety officers and first responders. We welcome our guests and witnesses.
Colleagues, I just want to mention that at noon we will be joined by another witness, Dr. Paul Frewen. Because we have only three witnesses today as opposed to our usual four, I suggest we plan on ending the meeting 15 minutes early, at about 12:45. Then we would ask the subcommittee on agenda and procedure to stay for about 15 minutes to go over the witness list for the next few sessions, get that done, and still be out by one o'clock today.
Is that agreed as a kind of working plan? If it turns out that you want more time with the witnesses, absolutely we will do that, but I think we probably should have sufficient time.
Dr. Zul Merali will be our first witness to speak. Each witness has about 10 minutes, so we'll have 20 minutes for presentations, members will ask questions, and then Dr. Frewen will come in after that.
Dr. Merali, welcome. I appreciate your taking the time, and I look forward to your enlightening us.