Good afternoon, everyone.
We're going to call meeting number 28 of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to order.
The orders of the day are pursuant to the orders of reference of Wednesday, September 24, 2014, Bill S-213 an act respecting Lincoln Alexander Day. This is what we're going to deal with today.
Before we start I was going to propose that we have a one-hour meeting in order to hear from our witness, Senator Meredith, as well as have questioning and deal with the clause-by-clause of the bill, that we have one seven-minute round of questioning, if the committee is happy with that. We should be able to get everything in within the hour.
At this point I'd like to turn the meeting over to Senator Meredith for 10 minutes.