Great.
Let's get to the business of today's meeting. Again, we will be ending our meeting at a quarter to one to deal with the motion.
We have witnesses today. Thank you all very much for coming this morning.
We have, from the United Steelworkers, Bob Matters, chair, Steelworkers' Wood Council; and Joe Hanlon, president, Local 2693.
We have, from the Université Laval, Luc Bouthillier, full professor, Department of Wood and Forestry Science, Faculty of Forestry and Geomatics.
We have, from J.D. Irving Limited, James D. Irving, president; and Christopher MacDonald, director of government relations.
We have, via video conference today, from the University of British Columbia, David Cohen, professor, Faculty of Forestry; and Jack Saddler, dean of the Faculty of Forestry and professor of forest products biotechnology.
We will now go directly to the presentations in the order listed on the orders of the day. We'll start with the witnesses from United Steelworkers.
Of course you understand we'd like you to keep the presentation for your group to less than ten minutes. If two of you are giving presentations, make sure the combined time is under the time we have allocated. We have a large number of witnesses.
Go ahead, please, gentlemen.
Mr. Matters, you're starting.