Welcome, everybody, to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans. This is meeting number 18. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), this pertains to our study of the relevance of the principle of adjacency and the owner-operator and fleet separation policies in the Pacific region.
We have several guests with us here today. We will have up to 10 minutes for each group represented. I would like to thank to all of them for accommodating us by being here in person and also by joining us by video conference as well as teleconference.
By way of introduction, from the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation, we have Jim McIsaac, executive director, who is joining us by telephone from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Jim, are you there?