Thank you, Madam Chair.
I thank all of you for being here, in person and by video.
We've certainly heard diverse presentations today. You've all offered very helpful testimony, certainly concerning the child component of the maternal and health initiative. I know that as we get into developing the report, all of your presentations will be considered.
But if you've been following the committee reports, I think you will note that we have been focusing fairly substantially on the maternal health component of the initiative. The testimony of the witnesses of the previous committees talked about the need to reconcile the current proposals by the government with Canada's international commitments and obligations on maternal and child health.
I'm going to put my questions out and then let the time run away with them.
For all of the witnesses, I would ask, given that the G8 has previously committed to a comprehensive approach to maternal and child health in Italy in 2009, and secondly, that the Secretary-General of the UN just today here in Ottawa called on the G8 leaders to honour their previous commitments and promises, would you be supportive of a comprehensive Canadian foreign policy on maternal and child health?
I'll hear your responses, and then I have individual questions for each of the groups.