Good afternoon, everyone. We'll come to order.
First off, apologies for the late start. You may have heard that there were votes in the House and we were all held up there, but we'll get right under way.
Welcome, also, to the folks in the gallery. We're happy to have everyone here.
We are meeting today on traditional Algonquin land, for which we are grateful.
We have two panels today. For the first panel for the first half of the meeting we have appearing as individuals, Rod McCormick, professor and research chair at Thompson Rivers University, and Michael DeGagné.
Welcome to you both.
Although we're starting about 20 minutes late, we are compelled to finish at the usual time of 5:30, so we'll be having each panel for 50 minutes instead of 60 minutes. We'll share the 20-minute loss between the two panels that we have this afternoon. It just means there might be one or two fewer questions after, but you'll have your full allotment of time.
You may speak in whatever order you would like. You each will have the floor for 10 minutes, and I yield the floor to you.