Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
I'd like to welcome everybody back from our Christmas and holiday break. Happy new year to you all.
We are continuing, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the study of the veterans health care review and the veterans independence program.
Today we have two witnesses with us. We have Clara Fitzgerald, from the Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging, and we also have Mark Speechley, from the University of Western Ontario, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.
Just for our witnesses' benefit, the way this generally works.... I don't know if you've been told that it's twenty minutes or ten minutes.
Good, you heard twenty minutes. That's what is usually standard. So you can split that as ten minutes apiece, or one of you can hog nineteen minutes and the other one will get one minute, as you see fit. Then after that, the committee members will take turns asking questions based on a strictly delineated, previously agreed to roster of the parties.
The floor is yours.