I will open this meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development for Thursday, October 19, 2006. Committee members, you have the orders of the day before you. We'll be talking about post-secondary education from 9 o'clock until 10:30.
Today the witnesses are from the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. We have with us Christine Cram, acting senior assistant deputy minister, socio-economic policy and regional operations; Richard Budgell, executive coordinator of post-secondary education, education branch; Allan MacDonald, director general, office of the federal interlocutor for Métis and non-status Indians; and Mary Tobin Oates, senior adviser, Inuit relations secretariat. Welcome to the committee.
We also have visitors from the school back here, and I welcome you today. Once again, I want to say thank you for the hospitality that we enjoyed when we had the opportunity to visit the school. It's good to see you here.
We're going to have presentations for 10 minutes, and then we'll have questions. Who will start off the presentation?
Madame Cram. Thank you very much.