Thank you.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak this afternoon.
My name is Pierre Gratton, and I'm the president and chief executive officer of the Mining Association of Canada.
I'm accompanied by Brendan Marshall, our vice-president for economic and northern affairs. Brendan will deliver the large portion of our remarks today as he has been working, in particular, very closely with our members and with the Government of Canada in response to the pandemic and its economic impact on our sector.
Just by way of background, MAC is the national voice of Canada's mining industry—