Colleagues, first and foremost, good morning. Thank you for getting here on time.
Now that everyone's here, I think we'll get started with our witnesses. Keep in mind there may be votes in the second half of our discussions this morning. We may have to suspend and/or shut down depending on how we make out. For the first hour, I think we're good to go.
This is a study on foreign policy as it relates to the U.S. and Canada.
In front of us is David Morrison, assistant deputy minister, the Americas, and chief development officer. I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Morrison to introduce his colleagues and then make his presentation. Then as per usual, we'll get right into questions.
For the information of our witnesses, we're very interested, of course, in the ongoing discussions between Canada and the U.S. vis-à-vis not just trade but the overall relationships, including matters like security and others and the view of Global Affairs as to where all of this will take us down the road. We may ask those kinds of crystal ball questions, which I think are important to get a sense of the direction of the Government of Canada.
I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Morrison, and we'll go from there.
David.