Colleagues, we're going to call this 28th meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development to order.
Today we continue our study on land use and sustainable economic development.
We have a full table of witnesses. We certainly want to express our thanks for your willingness to come. There are a number of you, and we're going to pick your brains a little bit today about an issue that we're trying to become more educated about in our effort to fully understand it, so that we can better make recommendations to the government with regard to this study topic.
I think what we'll do, colleagues, is have the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development testify first, if that would be appropriate, followed by the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Associations and then the National Aboriginal Forestry Association.
Mr. Vaughan, we'll turn it over to you to begin with. We like to keep the opening submissions around 10 minutes, give or take. After we complete the opening statements, we'll begin the questioning.
We'll turn it over to you, Mr. Vaughan.