Order, please.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are studying Canada's Arctic foreign policy.
I just want to welcome our two witnesses. We have Donald McRae, who's a professor at the University of Ottawa. Welcome, Mr. McRae. It's nice to have you here this morning. We also have Michael Byers, who is a professor and Canada research chair in the department of political science at the University of British Columbia. Mr. Byers, welcome to you, sir, as well.
As we continue our conversations on the Arctic, we're going to start with you two gentlemen, with some testimony for about 10 minutes each, and then we'll move around the room and go for some questions back and forth.
We could probably do this for about an hour, an hour and a half, depending on what we're doing, and then we have a little bit of committee business that we could deal with after that point in time.
Mr. McRae, why don't we kick it over to you. You have 10 minutes, sir.