Good morning, everybody.
Welcome to the meeting number 35 of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development.
Before we begin with our witnesses, who are all online for the first hour this morning, I have a little bit of committee business. The committee will not be meeting on Tuesday afternoon next week, because the spring economic statement is being presented in the House. Our meeting is cancelled on Tuesday, which means that we'll likely be doing the freshwater work on Thursday.
We're still working to get confirmation from the MPO with Dawn Farrell's appearance. The clerk has been shuffling it around. We should get it all sorted out for the following week, but that is still to be determined. We'll send that by email, when we actually have it done.
I need approval for four expenses for studies.
The first one is regarding the study on Canada's strategy to protect nature. The amount is $750.
All in favour?