Ladies and gentlemen, I think we're ready to proceed.
As you are aware, we have the pleasure of the Minister appearing this morning, the Honourable Gary Lunn, the Minister of Natural Resources, along with his deputy, Richard Fadden, and Howard Brown, and Margaret McCuaig-Johnston. It's nice to see you again, and thank you for coming.
The order of proceeding will be opening remarks, at your leisure. We usually go half an hour, but I think the indication is that you may want to shorten the time of the opening and leave more time for questions. I don't think there'll be any shortage of questions from this group, from what I've gathered, so we'll leave it to you.
When you've completed your remarks, we'll start with Mr. Cullen in questioning. I'd like to try to keep the questions and the answers a little shorter in the first round, so we'll have more rounds, if that's all right with you. Good. We're ready to proceed.
Mr. Lunn.