The minister will be with us for an hour, and then we'll have the officials for the second hour.
I want to welcome Mr. Lauzon to our committee. It's good to see you, Guy. I think most of you know who he is, but we certainly welcome him officially as a member of this committee now. I understand the committee will probably will be meeting regularly from now on. I think things have been dealt with. That's my understanding. I hope I'm not jumping the gun.
Today we're dealing with the extractive sector transparency measures act portion of the budget implementation act. We have a list of witnesses. Some are here in person, and some are here by video conference.
We have, first, from the Mining Association of Canada, Ben Chalmers, vice-president of sustainable development. From Publish What You Pay Canada, we have Claire Woodside, director. We have Andrew Bauer-Gador, economic analyst from Natural Resource Governance Institute. From Oxfam Canada, we have Lina Holguin, policy director for Oxfam Quebec.
Welcome to all of you.
By video conference from Edmonton from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers we have Ben Brunnen, who is the manager of fiscal and economic policy and Alex Ferguson, who is vice-president of policy and performance.
Welcome.
Again, thank you all very much for coming on relatively short notice. For presentations we will follow the order on the agenda today, starting with the Mining Association of Canada for up to seven minutes.