I call this meeting to order, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), for a briefing on Canada's foreign policy priorities.
Appearing before us today is the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Global Affairs. We want to thank her very much for taking this time to spend with is. As is our normal process here in committee, we will ask the minister to make her presentation, and then we'll go through a series of questions and answers.
As you know, the chair tends to be fairly lenient on how we do these things. Everybody can just relax and get their questions in, and it will all go well.
With that, I want to turn the floor over to Minister Freeland for her presentation.
Again, thank you for appearing.