Gentlemen, we will begin, and I thank you for your attendance today.
It appears we have but one item on the agenda, and that is further witnesses on our oil sands project. We did have a cancellation today. So we have one witness, and that is Dr. Michael Raymont, the president and chief executive officer of EnergyINet.
Without further ado, as I've discussed with colleagues, there doesn't seem to be any further business we need to deal with first.
I'm going to go straight to the witness and ask Dr. Raymont, if you would, please give us a brief overview of Energy Innovation Network before you begin, and then give us fifteen or twenty minutes in terms of an explanation.
This is primarily an information session. We are attempting to build a dossier on the ramifications of the oil sands—economic, social, and so on—prior to a visit by this committee to Fort McMurray and the Alberta oil sands.
Please lead us through that and then be prepared to respond to questions from the committee for about an hour. Because we are without our second witness today, we should be finished by five o'clock at the latest.
Dr. Raymont, please begin.