Good afternoon, everyone.
This is meeting number 24 of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Today we will have a briefing on the proposed sale of Radarsat-2.
For our committee's information, we will also have the opportunity for committee business at the end of the second hour. In that business, we have a report from your steering committee that we would like reviewed and adopted. There will also be time for other committee business.
In our first hour we have a witness testifying via video conference from the University of British Columbia, Professor Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law.
Good afternoon, Professor Byers.