I call the meeting to order.
We welcome all the international trade crew back to Canada.
We have a little bit of business, but we may try to do it at the end of today's meeting. It's nothing urgent. We'll leave it until Wednesday if we don't get through it. It's just some technical stuff to clean up.
There's also the report from the visit to the European Parliament and the European Union. I'd like to have the committee spend five or ten minutes to give some further direction to the analysts and the clerk on the preparation of that report. If we have time at the end of this meeting, we'll do that. I won't take any further time from our witnesses, who have been patiently standing by. I apologize for the slow start today.
We have with us Jamie Kneen, the communications coordinator for MiningWatch Canada.
Via video conference from Panama City, we have Donald-Fraser Clarke, general manager of Clarke Educational Services.
We'll proceed in the usual manner. I'll ask each witness to provide an opening statement to express their points of view. Something under 10 minutes would be useful for us. Then we'll open it up to questions and try to get a round of questions from our members following that brief introduction.
I'm going to ask MiningWatch Canada to start. We'll follow right away with Mr. Clarke. Then we'll proceed to questions.
With that brief introduction, I'll ask Mr. Kneen to start. You can introduce yourself further if you like.