I call this meeting to order.
As we planned earlier, we're going to have two groups of witnesses this afternoon. In our first group, to present on Bill C-33, we have by video conference Dr. Esteban Chornet, who will be joining us at around four o'clock. The committee permitting, when Dr. Chornet is able to get away from his class--which I think is what he's tied up with--we'll let him bring his 10-minute opening remarks at that point in time.
Thank you very much.
From the Conseil québécois du biodiésel, we have Camil Lagacé--no, he's going to be at five o'clock.
From Ducks Unlimited Canada, we have Paul Thoroughgood; from the Fédération des producteurs de cultures commerciales du Québec, Benoit Legault and Stéphane Bisaillon; and from Canadian Bioenergy Corporation, Ian Thomson.
I want to welcome all of you to committee. We're going to keep things moving fairly rapidly. I'd ask that you bring your opening comments in less than 10 minutes. We're going to go with five-minute question rounds for the members.
With that, I'm going to ask Mr. Thoroughgood to lead off with his opening comments, please.