Committee colleagues, let's begin this 19th meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.
Today we have two representatives from the Institute on Governance who will bring an opening statement. Of course we'll follow up with questions.
We are scheduled to go for an hour and a half, colleagues. If there are questions to complete that duration we will do that. We'll run until colleagues are finished, and then the subcommittee has a short meeting, at which I'm hopeful we can get through a number of things.
Today we have two witnesses, as I said, from the Institute on Governance. We have Ms. Lefebvre and Ms. Edgar.
Thank you so much for being here. We appreciate your coming on short notice, and we know you have been undertaking some work that will be of interest to our committee, so we would like to turn it over to you for opening statements. Then we will follow up with questions.