Colleagues, I'm going to call to order this 53rd meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.
Colleagues, as you are aware, today we've had some changes to our schedule, and therefore we've made some changes to the orders of the day. We're going to be moving to the second hour of representation, so it will be our privilege today to have David Akeeagok, deputy minister of the Environment of the Government of Nunavut, as well as chief negotiator of devolution.
We also have Christopher Douglas, who is special advisor to the premier.
Thank you so much for being here. We appreciate your testimony. After your opening statement we will turn to committee members to ask questions.
We will turn to you as we begin.