Good morning. Welcome to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.
We're very pleased to have with us today two witnesses: Rosemary Sadlier is president of the Ontario Black History Society, and Anthony Sherwood is director of Anthony Sherwood Productions.
We were going to have with us Mr. Leslie Oliver, from the Black Cultural Centre of Nova Scotia, but as those of us who are from Atlantic Canada know, we got a little bit of a snowstorm the other day. He was unable to fly here. We tried to teleconference him in, but that wasn't going to work. But he does want to appear, and he is going to appear at a later date.
Welcome to our two witnesses.
I explained to Mr. Sherwood earlier that at this committee we don't expect at this point that everyone is going to have every answer on 2017. We're only beginning our study now. We're looking for people to bring their perspective, because one thing we have heard is it's not too early to start planning. That's one thing we've heard from witnesses who have been a part of major productions before.
We are going to get started now. Each witness will have 10 minutes, approximately, to present, and then we'll go into our rounds of questions.
Mr. Sherwood has a video he'd like us to see first.
So, Mr. Sherwood, I'll give you the floor and you can cue that up.