Welcome, everyone. We have a lot of Yukoners, who have come out today to attend and we appreciate it. Thank you for being here.
Before we get started with our first witness of the day, the premier, I'd like to welcome everyone to the meeting this morning. This is the 36th meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development here in Whitehorse.
I thought I would just quickly let everyone know how a parliamentary standing committee hearing works. We have a very full day today, and we hope everything will go quite smoothly. We'll have to work at keeping on time. I'm sure that not all of you spend your days with your eyes riveted to CPAC watching how Parliament and its committees function, essentially what we will do today, but just so everyone is aware of how a meeting works—and you may have a schedule—we will have panels of individuals who will provide opening statements to the committee, and then each committee member will have time allotted equally to ask the panellists questions or make comments. We'll move from one to the other in that fashion during the day.
If anyone requires translation, we have access to that. When the hearings are in session, people aren't able to take pictures or make recordings.
Other than that, we thank everyone for coming today and we will get started so that we can keep on track.
I'd like to welcome as our first witness this morning, the Premier of Yukon, the Honourable Darrell Pasloski.
We will now turn the floor over to you, Mr. Premier, to make some opening remarks.