I bring this meeting to order. I thank colleagues for being here as timely as can be. We're only about 10 minutes behind, which is pretty good for us.
We have with us today an old friend of the committee, Monsieur Drapeau, who has been here many times, as has Mr. McSorley. We appreciate both of you being here.
We also have Richard Shimooka, senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, by video conference. I appreciate you joining us today.
All of you are familiar with the proceedings of the committee. We give five minutes for opening statements, and then we move to questions. Since we have a 90-minute session, I'm going to propose going three rounds in sequence.
With that, given that video conferences are inherently unstable—we don't trust them—I'm going to ask Mr. Shimooka to proceed with his five-minute opening statement. Then I'll proceed to Mr. Drapeau and Mr. McSorley.