I'll call the 46th meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology to order.
I apologize, first of all, to the witnesses. We had votes, which delayed us in the House for at least half an hour, so we will unfortunately have a shorter time period.
For the first panel, we have three organizations. First of all, from the Coalition for Canadian Astronomy, we have the co-chair of industry, chairman of the board, and CEO of Empire Industries Ltd., Mr. Guy Nelson. We have the co-chair of the Association of Canadian Universities for Research in Astronomy and past-dean of arts and science for the University of Toronto, Dr. Pekka Sinervo.
From SNOLAB, we have the director, Mr. Tony Noble. We also have the director of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Institute, Mr. Art McDonald.
Our third organization is the University of Victoria. We have Martin Taylor, who is the president and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada. We also have Cindy Paquette, the executive director of government relations for the university.
Welcome to all of you.
We will start in that order, with the Coalition for Canadian Astronomy. Please limit your opening comments to five minutes from each organization, and then we'll go immediately to questions from members.
Mr. Nelson.