Colleagues, good morning. I want to bring this meeting to order. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we're going to have a briefing with the vice speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament this morning.
On behalf of the committee I'd like to welcome Oksana Syroid, the vice speaker, and her colleagues. With her, we have Iegor Soboliev, the deputy chair of the Samopomich Faction, and Ivan Miroshnichenko, a member of the committee on agrarian policy. And of course we have our beloved ambassador of Ukraine, who will be at the table as well.
This morning we're going to discuss Ukrainian policy and issues surrounding Ukraine. You're free to have this discussion, colleagues, as you wish, but generally the process that we follow is that the deputy speaker will have some opening comments, and then we'll go right into questions from there. We have an hour. Then we'll take a break, take a few pictures, and then go to the next part of our meeting after the hour.
I want to again welcome the deputy speaker and turn the floor over to her. If you've read the deputy speaker's very impressive CV, as I have, you'll see that she went to school here, so she's a Canadian in some ways. We're very honoured to have her here today.
Deputy Speaker, I'll turn the floor over to you.