Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Welcome to all our witnesses here this evening.
As the chair said, this is the inaugural science and research committee of Parliament, the first of its kind.
Welcome to all of you from one coast to the other coast. Although, I have to say, being a member who represents Halifax West, that I'm extremely pleased and privileged to be able to ask both Dr. McIsaac and Dr. Rafuse a couple of questions tonight in the very few minutes that I have.
First, I want to thank both of you. There have been other witnesses in the past who have made similar points, but I really want to thank both of you for shining a light on some of the inequities in research and funding when it comes to smaller jurisdictions, particularly like Nova Scotia, and, quite frankly, like Atlantic Canada.
I've visited both Mount Saint Vincent and the repair centre at Dalhousie. The Mount has great work happening on early childhood and also on aging with the centre that you have. I know we punch above our weight.
Dr. Rafuse, let me just start by asking you directly about the research that you and your team are doing at the Brain Repair Centre. Just tell me a bit about that and what you're doing provincially, nationally and internationally—as much as you can in a short few minutes.
How does that help the research patients practically? I'm going to let you explain some of that because I know you didn't have a chance to do that.