I call the meeting back to order. In the second hour we have Mr. Gordon Peeling, president and chief executive officer of the Mining Association of Canada. We're certainly pleased to have him here.
We have designated a few minutes for committee business. My understanding is that the one motion that was presented just this past week has been withdrawn. Is there still a pressing need to move into committee business? We have a very short order in that we have to pass a motion in our committee to extend the meetings on the bill that we're debating this morning, Bill C-300, for 30 days. That passed our steering committee and it just calls upon this committee to have the motion. We'll do this later on. Maybe we'll go to 10:50 or whatever; we'll try to keep it to 45 minutes.
Mr. Peeling, welcome. I noted that you were present for part of the discussion in the first hour. We thank you for coming today. You can have approximately ten minutes as an introduction and then field some questions.