Good afternoon. We'll start this second meeting on today's agenda.
We're dealing with the softwood lumber agreement, which was signed on July 1, 2006. We had Minister Emerson at this morning's meeting. We're just back from a short lunch break.
Our witnesses for this meeting are, from the Government of Saskatchewan, Minister Eldon Lautermilch, Saskatchewan Forestry Secretariat; from the Council of Saskatchewan Forest Industries, Alan Brander, president; and from Bowater Incorporated, Pierre Monahan, senior vice-president and president, Canadian Forest Products Division.
We'll start the meeting with the presentations in the order they are listed here.
First of all, Mr. Minister, thank you very much for coming today.
Thank you all very much. We know you have busy agendas outside of this, but I also know that this issue is important to you and to the people of Saskatchewan.
Minister, perhaps you could make your presentation, and then we'll have Mr. Monahan make his.
Mr. Brander, do you have a presentation to make as well?