Good morning, everyone. Welcome.
Today we are starting a study on the status of the ecoENERGY programs.
We have with us today, as our first panel, from the Department of Natural Resources, Mark Corey, assistant deputy minister, earth sciences sector; Carol Buckley, director general, office of energy efficiency; Jonathan Will, director general, energy resources branch; and Mary Preville, acting director general, office of energy research and development.
Welcome to all of you. We won't get into a real discussion of this right now, but I would like all of you to think of the following as we go through the meeting today. We have organized the panel for today, including the departmental officials, and three other meetings on this. I think the intention is to then go back to the isotopes report, although there has been some uncertainty as to whether we had agreed to have three meetings, including this one, and then go to the report—or to have this meeting and three others. So if you could think about that, we will get back to it at the end of the meeting and very briefly settle it and decide where to go.
We'll start with the presentation by Mr. Corey, and then we'll get to the usual questions and answers in the usual format.
But first, thank you very much for coming today. We have been talking about visiting these programs for some time, and I'm glad we're going to have a little look at them, at least, over the next few days.
Go ahead, please.