Good afternoon, everyone. I would like to call this meeting to order. It's the continuation of our Arctic sovereignty study.
We are fresh back from our recent trip to the Arctic. It's good to see a number of members who were on that trip here with us today.
I would also like to welcome our first panel of witnesses. We have two sets of witnesses today.
In our first panel, we have Michael Byers, the Canada research chair in global politics and international law in the department of political science at the University of British Columbia. We also have Suzanne Lalonde, professor in the faculty of law, Université de Montréal.
Welcome. We're going to get started with your testimony. Then we will immediately open it up to questions from the members. I'm sure there will be many.
With that, Professor Byers, I think you are starting.