Good morning. Welcome to the 96th meeting of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
Unfortunately, Mr. Christopherson's brother has passed away.
He won't be in town all week, so we are going to put off his election as vice-chair because he expects a big battle and he's going to have to defend himself as second vice-chair of the committee. We'll do that formality when he's here next week.
It's great to have you here again, Mr. Saganash.
As we continue our study on the use of indigenous languages in the proceedings of the House of Commons, we are pleased today to be joined by John Quirke, clerk of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut.
Thank you for being here, and we really do thank you, because it means that we don't have to go over to the other building for our meeting. Thank you for coming all the way down from Nunavut. I'll turn the floor over to you for your opening remarks.
Nakurmiik.