Good afternoon, everyone.
We're here today, as you all know, to continue our study on the renewal of Canada's forest industry. This study was initiated as a follow-up to a study and a report presented by this committee in June of 2008. We've had several meetings on the issue already.
Today we have all witnesses by teleconference, by the way. It's going to be really important for you to identify yourselves, and you might like to identify the party you're from as well, because they'll have no way of knowing that. If you'd like to do that, do that. It's also going to be very important for the witnesses who are with us by telephone to identify themselves, the group they're from, and their names before they speak so that we can get that on record properly.
We have with us today by teleconference from Yellowknife, from the Government of the Northwest Territories, Evan Walz, assistant deputy minister, environment and natural resources; Frank Lepine, director, forest management division; and William Mawdsley, associate director, forest management division. We have from Whitehorse, Yukon, by teleconference, again from the Government of Yukon, George Ross, deputy minister of energy, mines and resources; and Lyle Dinn, director, forest management branch. We have also with us today, from the Dakwakada Development Corporation, Brian MacDonald, chair.
Those are the witnesses. We will have presentations in the order that you're on the agenda, so we'll start the presentations with the Government of the Northwest Territories.
Mr. Walz, I understand that you probably are going to give the presentation, but if not, you can go ahead and divide it for up to seven minutes, divided any way you see fit.