Welcome to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage and our study on national protocol procedures.
I have a quick note for committee members. Obviously, we had to cancel the first hour. The witnesses scheduled to be here were the Department of National Defence and the Royal Canadian Legion, both based in Ottawa. I understand Mr. Calandra will have a motion later on to deal with hearing from them.
We are going to save the last six minutes for committee business. Mr. Calandra and Mr. Nantel have a couple of items, as does the clerk.
Welcome to our witnesses. We have the City of Ottawa, represented by Cathy Bowles, chief of protocol. From the Government of Manitoba, we have Dwight MacAulay, chief of protocol, executive council. From the Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs of Ontario, we have Mary Shenstone. Welcome to all of you.
This is day two of our study. We have had a couple of interesting witnesses, and we're glad to have your participation. We ask that, if it's possible, you keep your remarks to under seven minutes.
We will begin with Cathy Bowles from the City of Ottawa.