Everybody, I'd like to call the meeting to order.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are conducting a study of mental health and suicide prevention among veterans. Today we have three different groups joining us. From the Department of National Defence, we have Brigadier General Hugh MacKay, surgeon general and commander of the Canadian Forces Health Services Group; and Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Currie, section head of the communicable disease control program, and the director of Force Health Protection. From the Department of Health, we have Dr. John Patrick Stewart, director general of the marketed health products directorate in the health products and food branch. From the Public Health Agency of Canada, we have Dr. Barbara Raymond, interim director general of health security integration in the health security infrastructure branch.
Thank you, everybody, for joining us today. We'll start with a panel, and each of you will have up to 10 minutes for testimony and then we'll have questions.
We'll start with the Department of National Defence.
Good afternoon.