Thank you very much. Certainly it's a privilege to have you here today for these bilateral discussions.
Perhaps before I turn it over to our first questioner, I'll introduce our group.
Members of Parliament on the government side include Mr. Blaine Calkins, Mr. James Lunney, and Mr. Randy Kamp; from the official opposition, the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay; from the Bloc Québécois, Mr. Raynald Blais and Mr. Gérard Asselin; and from the New Democratic Party, Mr. Peter Stoffer.
You can see we have an all-party committee here. Actually a majority of the committee members are from the opposition parties, so it makes for an interesting committee sometimes, but we pride ourselves on being a committee that is able to work on behalf of the fisheries straight across Canada. The majority of the time, quite frankly, we get along quite well--that's not all of the time, but the majority of the time.
We will allow for interpretation, but with no further ado, I will turn it over to Mr. MacAulay.