We'll get under way, if everyone is ready.
Welcome everybody. I'm glad to be back. I think this is perhaps our third meeting of this committee.
I would like to make a special welcome today to our guests from the Assembly of First Nations. National Chief Perry Bellegarde is here, with his chief of staff Dale LeClair, and his adviser, Max FineDay.
I understand that you're going to give us a presentation, for which we're very grateful. We think we'll have that be around 20 minutes or so, if that suits you. We can stretch it either way, if you need to. Then we're going to create an opportunity for some good discussion and questions from the committee members afterwards.
Before we get under way, I would like to acknowledge that we're meeting with our committee today on the ancestral lands of the Algonquin Nation.
With that, we can get under way.