I call this meeting to order. It's 8:45 and I see that we have quorum.
Before I call upon our distinguished guests, I want to make a good news announcement to the committee.
It appears that we now have everything in order to travel. The budget passed without amendment and last night, the report of the committee was tabled without objection, so it appears that we'll be travelling. That will feed what we do on Tuesday. I'd like to set aside an hour on Tuesday to talk about a number of items of committee business. In the first hour, we'll deal with the external monitor and in the second hour with committee business.
Keep that in mind and if we have more meetings.... Well, we do live in the age of miracles.
With that, I am going to call upon Mr. Perry and Mr. Williams for their opening five-minute statements, in no particular order.
Mr. Perry is listed first.
Mr. Perry, president of Canadian Global Affairs Institute, the floor is yours for five minutes.