I call this meeting to order.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming out this morning to meet with your Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. Thank you for the opportunity to come to Deer Lake, and thank you for coming to meet with us, taking the time out of your busy schedules to offer some opinions and thoughts and to answer some questions that committee members might have.
It's generally a custom, when we travel as a committee to a certain area, that we ask the member from that area to say a few words to open up the proceedings.
I'll ask Mr. Byrne if he wants to make a few comments.