Good morning, everyone.
As you all know, this committee has been examining Canada's international business policy, what obstacles stand in the way of improved trade and investment ties around the world, and what policies are needed to achieve those goals.
We will continue today in that vein, with witnesses from the Canada-Arab Business Council. We have Dwain Lingenfelter, the chairman and CEO, who is vice-president of government relations of Nexen Inc.; David Hutton, the director general; and Paul Mariamo, who is senior vice-president, Middle East, of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.
Gentlemen, we've discussed your program here today. Please go ahead and make your presentations as you have planned. When you've finished the presentations, we'll go directly to the questions.
Thank you for being here this morning. I'm looking forward to this meeting very much.