Welcome back, everyone. We are here for our second hour of questions and answers.
For our second hour on our nutrition north discussion, first of all I'd like to welcome Minister Dan Vandal, Minister of Northern Affairs, and also, from the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, Valerie Gideon, deputy minister, a familiar face at our committee. Welcome back. We also have Georgina Lloyd, assistant deputy minister of northern affairs, and Wayne Walsh, director general of the northern strategic policy branch, northern affairs.
I'm going to remind everybody who's here that if this is your first time since we made changes to the set-up in the room, we're asking people, when they are not using the earpieces, to leave them face down on the circles to try to prevent audio feedback for the protection of our interpreters, and to try to keep the earpieces away from the microphones.
With that, welcome, Minister. When you're ready, we'll give you your five minutes for the opening statement. We'll then move into our rounds of questions.
We should be able to get through two rounds of questions. One of the reminders I'd like to give to everybody is that we try to keep the questions and the answers kind of equal. If people are giving a long question, we'll give the Minister a long answer. We'll try to balance it out that way.
With that, Minister, it's over to you for your five-minute opening statement.