Great. Thank you.
We appreciate the opportunity to speak before the committee here today.
What we'd like to talk about with you today is regarding a very important aspect of our resource development, and that is, adding value to the resources themselves. While we have this tremendous natural resource here in Canada, recent trends are towards exporting our resources out in a raw form and bypassing the economic opportunities for Canada.
Ms. Thompson will provide an overview of what's happening in the area, and then I'll follow up with some trends and facts and figures regarding what we see going into the future.