Good morning, everyone. We are here this morning pursuant to Standing Order 81(5) to deal with the supplementary estimates (C) from 2009-10, votes 1c, 5c, 10c, and 25c under Natural Resources, referred to the committee on Wednesday, March 3, 2010.
We have appearing with us today for the first time the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Natural Resources. Minister, I would like to first of all welcome you to our committee and to thank you very much for coming so soon. It is very helpful to our committee to have you appear so soon, and it is much appreciated.
We don't have a lot of time today, so I would like you to open with your remarks. If you could, please identify the witnesses with you. I think we know them--they were before our committee last year on several occasions--but if you could do that and then go ahead with your comments, then we'll get directly to questions.
Welcome, Minister.