Thank you very much. We are delighted that the Chair and the committee invited us here.
Thank you so much. In the absence of our mayor, I bring greetings from Vancouver and I thank you very much for the invitation to present today.
Vancouver has a very strong commitment to being a sustainable city, and what we'd like to do today is present you with a very concrete example of a major development that many of you have probably read about, the Olympic Village on Southeast False Creek, which, in spite of some of the challenges we face with it, is a very interesting and innovative example of taking integrated planning and sustainability and actually putting it into a whole community that will be a model community in this particular area for the city of Vancouver.
I'm going to ask Mr. Pander, who is our program manager, to walk you through the work we've done on this community and how it represents an example of many of the things that my colleague the mayor spoke about.