We'll call the meeting to order. I'd like to welcome everyone to this 30th meeting of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development as we continue our study on the national conservation plan and what that would look like.
I want to thank each of the witnesses for being with us today. We'll hear from each of our witness groups and then we'll have some questions for you. We've started a little bit late and we're going to be ending a half hour earlier than we had thought. We have three groups and each group will be given ten minutes.
So in the first half hour we'll be hearing from you, and then we'll have questions for you. We will begin with the Canadian Wildlife Federation for ten minutes.