Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans.
Today, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on September 19, the committee commences its study to review changes made to the Fisheries Act. This is what we would have to call an abbreviated version, simply because of the votes in the House. We just took one vote in the House of Commons. We expect to take another vote closer to 5:45 p.m., with bells preceding at 5:15 p.m.
I've had some discussions with our colleagues and with the table officers here. We've decided that we're certainly going to allow all five groups here to have their 10 minutes or less to make a presentation, to put it into the record, and have it considered in this study. Following that, we hope to have a question from each party represented by MPs, including the government side, the opposition, and the third party, the NDP.
That being said, I'll introduce the guests and you can proceed right away.
In group number one, from Manitoba Hydro we have Gary Swanson, the senior environmental specialist. He has a power point for us to look at as well.
Mr. Swanson, you have 10 minutes or less. Please proceed.