Bonjour tout le monde. Unfortunately, that is probably the extent of my French for now. I do apologize for those that require the translation, but I am working on that quite diligently and hope to be able to speak in both official languages by the end of my term here.
Thank you very much.
This is a great honour and I look forward to working with all of you. We have a lot that will be coming to this committee and a lot of work to do, so I'm not going to waste a lot of time with jibber-jabber. Let's get at it.
If the committee is in agreement, I invite the clerk to proceed with the election of the vice-chairs.