I would like to open this meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development on Thursday, March 29, 2007.
Committee members, you have the orders of the day before you. Pursuant to the order of reference of Wednesday, February 21, 2007, today we'll be looking at Bill C-44, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act.
The witnesses before us today are from the Assembly of First Nations. We have National Chief Phil Fontaine and Chief Lynda Price.
Welcome to the witnesses.
The chair is going to run over on our time to make sure we have adequate time. We were only going to go to 12:30 p.m. with the witnesses and then we were going to move on to committee business. Is it the pleasure of the committee that I allow 15 minutes if we need it, because of our late starting? I see we agree to do so.
We will have the presentation from Chief Phil Fontaine. Thank you very much for your attendance.