Colleagues, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the study of Canada’s development finance initiative, we'll commence this morning.
Good morning. It's good to see you all.
In front of us for the next hour is Marc-Yves Bertin from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development. He's the director general of international economic policy.
Good morning, Marc-Yves.
Colleagues, just before we get started with Marc-Yves, you'll notice a notice of motion by Hélène on inviting one of the ministers, based on this study. I just want to remind everybody that, as per usual, the witness list is open. It fits right in. We'll move the motion as normal, but as you well know, around here we've left the witness lists open so that people can add to them as we go. If they feel that based on what they heard they'd like to hear from someone else, it makes perfect sense to me. I wanted to remind all my colleagues of their ability to continue to add to the list as we go, as long as it fits into the slot of how many days we have available for witnesses and the study we're looking at.
With that, I'm going to turn the floor over to Marc-Yves, and he's going to give us opening comments. Then we'll go into our usual Q and A.
Marc-Yves, the floor is yours.