I'd like to bring this meeting to order.
This is the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan, meeting number 24.
We have two main items on our agenda, the report from the Department of Natural Resources, and then we will be video conferencing with an individual in Vancouver.
As chair of the committee, I want to put forward a proposal to you. I have a motion that I would like to deal with right at the beginning; I'm sure it will only take a few minutes to get that taken care of. Then I'd like to divide the meeting into two 45-minute portions, rather than go one hour, and then 30 minutes. The reason I'd like to do that is because the second part of the meeting will be cut short, at 5:15, because I understand we have votes. So to allocate that time, I'm going to take 45 minutes for each of the presenters. Then we have a 15-minute segment at 5 o'clock for future business of the committee, where we will go in camera.
Is that okay with everybody?