I call this meeting to order.
We welcome our guests to the second panel of our ninth meeting. As you know, this is the inaugural science and research committee and the inaugural study on the successes, challenges and opportunities for science in Canada.
For this panel, our committee is really pleased to welcome, as an individual, Dr. Jessie-Lee McIsaac, an assistant professor and Canada research chair in diversity and transitions of early childhood, from Mount Saint Vincent University. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Victor Rafuse, director and professor at Dalhousie University with the Brain Repair Centre; and from TRIUMF, we have Dr. Nigel Smith, the executive director.
We will now go to testimony. You will each have five minutes. When you see me give the yellow card, that means we're at the four-and-a-half-minute mark. I do my best to be fair to everyone.
We will begin with Dr. McIsaac for five minutes.
The floor is yours.