Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Let me start by thanking both Dr. Barber and Dr. Smith for being here today. We're really honoured to have both of you here with your talents and expertise.
Let me direct my question to you, Dr. Smith.
We're here to study ambitious research goals that we hope will solve some of Canada's and the world's biggest challenges. I'm really happy that you ended with giving us your input in terms of what national strategy you believe Canada should be leading on in a number of areas.
You talked about sustainable health systems adequately staffed, and I'm very interested in the area of brain disease and dementia that is affecting so many Canadians. Can you tell us a bit more about that, and what government can do, what we can do as parliamentarians, what researchers can do and how you and others as well can help to move this along?