It's 3:30. We'll come to order.
Welcome, everyone.
I would like to acknowledge that we're meeting today on unceded Algonquin territory and we're very grateful for that.
Before we get to our witnesses today from the National Association of Friendship Centres, I want to just get a sense from members. We have only one organization visiting today, so it leaves us a bit of time on our agenda. What I'd like to propose to do with the order of questions is what we did on Tuesday, which is to complete the first order and repeat, and then go to the second page and do the top half, the seven-minute questions. Wherever that leaves us, we'll leave it there, and we can proceed to two pieces of committee business on the draft suicide study budget and communications plan. Does that seem reasonable to everybody?
It looks like I see assent.
Okay, with that decided, I'm very happy to welcome today on behalf of the committee Christopher Sheppard, vice-president of the National Association of Friendship Centres, and Yancy Craig, director of strategic development.
Christopher has travelled to see us today from St. John's, Newfoundland. Yancy Craig has travelled across the street to see us.
We welcome you both. We're very happy to have you here.
I am happy to offer 10 minutes to divide between yourselves as you see fit. When nine minutes comes along, I will hold up the yellow card. When 10 minutes is up, I will hold up the red card. I would ask you to bring it right to a close at that point so that we can get to the questions.
Without further ado, I cede the floor to you.