I call the meeting to order.
I'll be sitting in this chair today because our erstwhile chair, Hedy Fry, is travelling, so it falls to me to take on the responsibility for this meeting and, I think, our next meeting. I will have to depart just before we finish off today.
We first have witnesses for 10 minutes each.
We have Murray Sinclair, who is a senator. From the Metro Vancouver Aboriginal Executive Council, we have Kevin Barlow, the chief executive officer.
You will each have 10 minutes to speak. I'll try to give you some kind of heads-up warning and then we'll get into question rounds.
This is a difficult time for us to be meeting, of course, after the attacks in Las Vegas, Edmonton, and Marseilles over the weekend, but we shall continue to plunge forward.
We will start with Mr. Sinclair.