Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Brodie and Mr. Gillis, for being here.
I'll begin, and if there is more time left, perhaps some of my colleagues will have a question or two as well.
Perhaps I can just start out with a clarification, because I think there is a little confusion around the table on the issue of Canada's jurisdiction over the nose and tail of the Grand Banks outside of the 200-mile limit. Perhaps you can tell me if I'm right in thinking that although the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea allows Canada to make that claim, it's a process that Canada must engage in.
In fact, Canada is currently involved in seabed mapping and so on in order to make that claim, which has to be submitted under that convention by 2013. We're making good progress toward that.
That's my understanding. Is it yours as well?