Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I'd like to thank the witnesses, Ms. Dion Fletcher, Ms. Aerts, Ms. Murphy and Ms. Giroux, for being with us today. It's always interesting to hear the reality of midwives on the ground.
I'd like to start by going back to what Ms. Aerts said, which is that the pandemic revealed that this profession had experienced a certain lack of resources, including a lack of personal protective equipment, or PPE.
It's important to work on the recognition of the profession, but it's also important to give it more resources, whether by facilitating access to PPE or by giving it more financial resources. Better funding could help put in place more projects that focus, for instance, on training midwives and even on recognizing midwives.
So I'd like to know more about this lack of resources. Ms. Aerts, one of the things you talked about was PPE.
Ms. Giroux, I'd also like to hear your comments about this lack of resources.