Good afternoon, everyone.
We're here today for two hours to review certain proposed appointees.
In the first hour we'll be looking at appointees to the National Energy Board. I'll read the motion and then the names of the individuals we will be reviewing in the first hour. The motion is as follows:Pursuant to Standing Orders 110 and 111, and the motion adopted by the Committee on Wednesday, November 6, 2013, Order in Council appointment of Kenneth Bateman to the Position of Member of the National Energy Board, referred to the Committee on Tuesday, October 22, 2013.
As well as reviewing the appointment of Mr. Bateman, we will be reviewing the appointments of Shane Parrish, Dr. Ron Wallace, and Don Young as members of the board.
These are the four appointees we'll be reviewing in the first hour.
Gentlemen, you each have up to five minutes to make a statement leading up to the questions. We'll take those one after the other at the start of the meeting. Then we will open it up for questions and comments by members in the normal fashion.
We will start with the statements by the appointees being reviewed. We will start with Mr. Kenneth Bateman.
Go ahead, please, Mr. Bateman.