Bonjour, chers collègues.
This is the 39th meeting of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, on Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Our orders of the day include a return to our committee's study of Bill C-300, an act respecting corporate accountability for the activities of mining, oil, or gas in developing countries.
As our witnesses on our first panel today, we have, from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Ian Dale, the senior vice-president, communications and stakeholder relations, and Donald Raymond, senior vice-president, public market investments.
Welcome to you.
Also, from the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, we have Anthony Andrews, the executive director, and Bernarda Elizalde, the program director for sustainable development.
We also have Robert Wisner appearing as an individual.
I'm not certain if any or all of you have attended committee meetings before, but we look forward to your opening statements and then we'll move into different rounds of questions that the members of this committee may have for you.
Perhaps I'll just open up the invitation to Mr. Dale and we'll proceed from there.
Mr. Raymond.