Gentlemen, on behalf of the committee, I'd like to begin by thanking you for taking the time to appear before our committee today and provide us with some answers to the various questions we have. I would ask your indulgence here, as well. We're running close on time, as you can probably appreciate.
What I would ask, Mr. Walker, Mr. Backman, and Mr. Erenst, is that you try to make your opening comments as brief as possible, and then we could get right to the questions. I know members have a lot of questions.
Mr. Walker, you may proceed with your opening comments. Could you try to restrict your opening comments to around five minutes? The same would apply to the other gentlemen here with us in our committee room as well.
Mr. Walker, please proceed.