Thank you very much for your presentation, Mr. von Mirbach, director of the Canadian Arctic program for World WildLife Fund Canada.
Before we go to questioning I want to remind people of our study. At the last meeting I noticed a fair bit of straying, I think on both sides, from the topic that we were here to discuss. We're here to do a study on resource development in northern Canada. I would ask all members to keep their questions to the topic at hand.
We'll start the questioning with a seven-minute round.
Mr. Allen, you have up to seven minutes. Go ahead, please.