Welcome to meeting number 9 of our Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. This is a subcommittee studying the crisis of certain industrial sectors in Canada, such as aerospace, energy, forestry, high technology, and manufacturing. Today we are pleased to have the energy sector.
Normally, we begin our sessions with opening remarks. We generally give you about 10 minutes, but if you need to take a little longer...we've been getting more and more generous as this thing has progressed. I think it has worked out fairly well.
We have presentations from the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors and from the Small Explorers and Producers Association of Canada; however, they are only in English. So I need unanimous consent if we are to distribute this.
Monsieur Bouchard, would you agree to that? If not, we just have to listen. A translation will be done, but not today.