I'd like to welcome everyone back to the second hour of meeting number 14 of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.
We continue our study concerning opportunities for aboriginal persons in the workforce.
For the next hour, we're delighted to have with us, Ms. Elizabeth Cayen, executive director with the Nunavut Fisheries and Marine Training Consortium.
We are also joined by video conference from Winnipeg, Mr. Donovan Fontaine. Actually, we're not joined by Mr. Fontaine, as I understand it. He hasn't arrived yet, but hopefully he will arrive. He's a board member at First Peoples Development Inc.
We also have Ms. Joan Harris, a program manager, who is actually on the screen via video conference with us now. Welcome.
Finally, also by video conference from Winnipeg, we have Mr. Kent Paterson, president and chief executive officer of the YMCA-YWCA of Winnipeg.
Thank you for joining us. Hopefully, Mr. Fontaine will arrive as we go through the testimony.
I'll turn the floor over to the witnesses for their 10-minute opening remarks and presentations.
Ms. Cayen, would you begin, please, for 10 minutes.