Pursuant to the order of reference of Wednesday, March 3, 2010, Bill C-300, An Act respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries, we'll commence. We are now at meeting number 21.
To all the witnesses today, I want to say thank you very much for being here. Some of you have come from close by and some from farther away. We thank all of you.
I'm going to ask you to try to keep your remarks to eight minutes. I realize that some of you have been told a different amount; I'm not going to cut you off, so do the best you can.
I want to get started as quickly as we can because we do have a lot of witnesses today. A few have said that they would be a bit late. We will probably start questions and then go back to them, should that happen to be the case, just to give everyone a chance.
It's good to see Mr. Stewart-Patterson back again. Why don't we just kick off with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives? You have Mr. Dillon along as well, who is the vice-president of regulatory affairs and general counsel. We'll have you start and after that we'll get to questions.
Mr. Stewart-Patterson, the floor is yours, sir.