Good afternoon, everybody.
Welcome to our environment and sustainable development committee. We are holding a bit of a special meeting today. There was a motion that our committee agreed to a couple of weeks ago:
That the Committee schedule one meeting with witnesses to discuss disaster mitigation and insurance, in relation to severe flooding, wildfires, and other extreme weather events in Canada.
We have two panels—one now and one at 4:30. First, from Forests Ontario, we have Rob Keen; second, from Quinte Conservation, Bradley McNevin; and last from the Forest Productions Association of Canada, Kate Lindsay.
Welcome to the three witnesses. We have 10 minutes scheduled for each of your opening statements. Once we have had the three opening statements, we'll go to rounds of questions. Our questions are six minutes each. We go from the government side to the opposition side to the second opposition side. We'll see how many rounds of questions we can get in before we get to 4:30, when we need to reset for the next panel.
With that, who would like to start?
Ms. Lindsay, do you maybe want to start? I'll give you 10 minutes for your opening statement.