Hello everyone.
Welcome, Ms. Vien. I hope you are going to like the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. Our work is very interesting, as you will see.
We are starting a study on federal freshwater policy. Today we have two panels of witnesses. I would first like to point out, for Ms. Pauzé in particular, that all witnesses in the first group who are with us virtually have passed the sound quality tests.
We have with us in person Alexandre Lillo, who is a law professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Mr. Lillo, thank you for being here. We are very happy to have you.
We also have with us, online, from the B.C. Wildlife Federation, executive director Jesse Zeman; the founder of The EcoAmbassador—non-profit, I assume—Ms. Luxmy Begum; and from Wildsight, which is another NGO, Wyatt Petryshen, science policy adviser.
Each witness will have a five-minute opening statement. Then we'll proceed to a couple of rounds of questioning. I hope we can get in two rounds. Actually, I guess it's going to be one round.
We are going to start with Professor Lillo.
I have Mr. Bachrach.