We'll get started. Welcome, everybody. Good morning.
This is the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage's first meeting on our study of Canada's 150th anniversary, and we're all quite interested to embark on this study. I think we have a great panel here today to kickstart us on our study of the 150th.
We have Andrea Shaw, who is the founder and managing partner of Twentyten Group, but she was the vice-president, sponsorship sales and marketing, for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, of which we are all so very proud as Canadians. It's nice that you could be here with us, Andrea.
We also have Dr. Keith Neuman, from Environics Research. They have done a survey of Canadians on the subject of Canada's 150th anniversary, so we're interested in hearing from you, Dr. Neuman.
As well, we have with us someone who's literally written the book on 1967, Dr. Helen Davies, who's an independent scholar. She has written a book on the subject we'd like to reflect on. We're very glad that you could be here with us today.
The way the committee works is you'll each be given ten minutes, if necessary, for opening comments, and then we begin questions and answers. In the first round there are seven minutes for the question and the answer, back and forth, before we move on to the next person. In the second round it's five minutes.
With that, we'll just go to Andrea Shaw.