I would like to call the meeting number 19 of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development to order.
We're pleased to have with us today four groups that are going to provide testimony on our study on Great Lakes water quality.
Welcome Mr. David Sweetnam, executive director, Georgian Bay Forever.
We also have here Jan Ciborowski, professor, University of Windsor; from Ducks Unlimited Canada, James Brennan, director, and Mark Gloutney, director; and from the Sierra Club of Canada, Mary Muter, vice-chair.
We're going to proceed in that order unless you have agreed to a different order.
We'll begin with Georgian Bay Forever, Mr. David Sweetnam, please, for a 10-minute opening statement followed by the other testimony and then two rounds of questions.
Welcome.