He's from Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry. We're delighted to have Eric and, again, all of you with us.
I'm going to let everybody know who the witnesses are today before they get into their opening statements.
From the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, we have Michael Kabalen. He's the executive director. From the Association of Atlantic Universities, we have Robert Summerby-Murray. He is the chair of the association. Joining Robert, we have Dr. Peter Halpin, who may jump in for some of the answers to the questions from members. From Bear Head Energy, managing director Paul MacLean is joining us.
We are now going to start with some opening statements. We have some witnesses arriving as we speak. They'll make their way to the room and get seated, but we are going to start with our opening statements.
Mr. Kabalen, if you could start, please, you have five minutes.