I'd like to welcome you all to the seventeenth meeting of the Legislative Committee on Bill C-30.
Since we have a large panel this afternoon, we're going to have to move fairly quickly. The bells are going to ring at 5:30. Although we will go into that time a little bit, we need to move along fairly briskly.
I'd like to welcome today, in the same order in which I'll ask them to speak, from the Greenhouse Emissions Management Consortium, Ms. Aldyen Donnelly, president; from the International Emissions Trading Association, Mr. Andrei Marcu, president; and from the Montréal Climate Exchange, Monsieur Luc Bertrand, président et chef de la direction.
I also welcome by video conference Mr. Jos Delbeke--I don't see him in his chair yet--from the European Commission delegation to Canada; Ms. Vicki Arroyo, director of policy analysis at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change; and Ms. Louise Comeau, director of the Sage Centre climate project.
As is our custom, we'll give each of you about ten minutes. Please make it ten minutes and no more, in fact preferably less; that way we can move along quickly.
I see that Mr. Delbeke has now arrived. I'm not sure he can hear me yet, but he's smiling.
Mr. Delbeke--I think you can hear me now--you are number four in the batting order, so you can catch your breath.
The topic of the day, listed as “Tools: Emissions Trading”, should be obvious from the list of witnesses.
Ms. Donnelly, the floor is yours.