The meeting will come to order.
For those of you who have just arrived, I've left for your interest—I think everybody has one—a DVD with some photos taken up at Fort McMurray. I wish we had more, but if anybody else had any others they wanted to distribute, I'd welcome those too. I don't know who else had a camera up there, but we would be happy to share any others.
Now, today's witnesses are going to talk to us about land reclamation and the boreal forest. We have, from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Bruce Friesen, the manager of reclamation at Syncrude. Mary Granskou from the Canadian Boreal Initiative could not make it today, so in her stead we have Alan Young, program manager, and Matt Carlson, science coordinator, on her and the Canadian Boreal Initiative's behalf.
I have suggested to both of them that they might begin with about a 10-minute opening statement to provide some background for the committee, and then I'll open it up to questions when they have concluded.
I think we'll start with Mr. Young. If you'd like, could you first give us some background very quickly on the Canadian Boreal Initiative and what it is, and then perhaps paint a broader picture for the committee.