Hon. members, witnesses and guests, welcome to the 29th meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.
This morning and through the early part of the afternoon, we are welcoming three newly elected chiefs from their respective organizations. Each of them will have one hour.
We are going to begin by welcoming the newly elected national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Shawn Atleo.
Chief, it's great to have you with us here this morning.
We'll commence with the usual opening statements by our guest witness for approximately 10 minutes and then go right into questions from members.
Chief, we're glad to have you with us. You have approximately 10 minutes. If you go over that a little bit, that's fine also. We have the full hour, but I'm sure members will have many questions for you also.
Chief Atleo.