Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), our study on Canada's Arctic foreign policy will commence.
I want to welcome our guests who are here today as witnesses. We have David VanderZwaag, who is here as an individual but is a professor of law and Canada research chair in ocean law and governance at Dalhousie University. Welcome, David. Thank you for being here today.
We have John Crump, with GRID-Arendal, who is a senior adviser, climate change, polar centre. Welcome, John. It's nice to have you here today as well.
We have David Hik, also as an individual, who is a professor in the department of biological sciences, University of Alberta.
Via teleconference today from Edmonton, Alberta, we have Anita Dey Nuttall, who is the associate director of the Canadian Circumpolar Institute.
What I'm going to do, as we have it on the witness list, is start with you, Mr. Crump, for opening testimony.
We'll go through the opening testimonies and then we'll have time to go back and forth. I thought we'd combine because some people cancelled, so we'll do the full two hours. We'll have the testimony first, go to questions back and forth, and then we'll see how we go from there.
Mr. Crump, we'll start with you, then we'll go to Mr. Hik and Mr. VanderZwaag, and finish off with Anita Dey Nuttall via teleconference.
Mr. Crump, I'll turn the floor over to you. We look forward to your opening testimony.