Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's really good to have our committee up and running here and dealing with some business that is obviously important.
Today we are dealing with parts of the second budget implementation act, Bill C-43. I'll let the witnesses explain that in more detail, but pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) we're starting a two-meeting study on the subject matter of clauses 376 to 381 of Bill C-43, a second act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 11, 2014, and other measures.
Today we have witnesses, first of all, from the Department of Natural Resources.
Thank you, all, by the way for being here today, and I apologize for the delay. That's the way this place works. You probably have experienced it before, and there's really not a lot we can do to control that.
Before I introduce the witnesses, I would suggest to the committee that we take the full hour with the departmental witnesses. They have been here. They are waiting. We had them scheduled for an hour. It's probably going to be pretty hard to adapt presentations and have any time with them at all.
I'll put that out as a suggestion. We don't want to get into a long discussion on this, but is it agreed that we proceed in that fashion?
Ms. Charlton.