Good morning, and thank you very much for allowing us the opportunity to present to you today.
I am Kara Flynn, the head of government and public affairs for Syncrude. Within that portfolio I am responsible for our aboriginal strategy, and all of our consultation and oversight for activities in the employment and business development areas.
I'll take you through the first slide in our presentation.
Syncrude actually established six key commitment areas with the five first nations that we engage with directly in formal consultation with the five chiefs. You can see those commitment areas in front of you. I'll focus mostly on the education, employment, and business development areas in my remarks this morning. We have been doing this for a long time. We are 50 years in business this year. Aboriginal relations was the second department formed at Syncrude, right behind our research and development department.
Moving quickly to the next slide on achieving success, focusing on the education and training area, we take a long-term view to developing—