Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I first want to thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before you today. We were asked to talk to you about some of the work we are doing within our Suncor Energy Foundation, particularly as it relates to building skills in rural communities. In our case, a lot of that work is in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, or Fort McMurray.
We hope that today will be the beginning of a dialogue with you. We haven't done the sort of deep policy thinking, given the notice we had, but we're very happy to share these examples with you. We really believe in some of the principles we're about to share with you.
First, it's important to have multi-stakeholder dialogues with the federal and provincial governments, first nations partners, communities, and industry at the table developing solutions. We think these kinds of dialogues and investments in solutions for building skills and capacity in the community will pay long-term benefits both economically and socially.
With that I'll turn it over to my colleague Cathy Glover, who will tell you about some of the work we're doing within the foundation. Then we'll look forward to your questions.