Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome back. Thank you for joining us today.
This is the first day of a new study, which will be very interesting, on international best practices for engaging with indigenous communities regarding major energy projects.
We have four groups of witnesses today. I assume I don't need to explain the committee procedure. Is that correct? All right, I can omit that part of my speech.
Perhaps we can jump right in.
For committee members, we're going to hear from all four witness groups, one after the other, then we're going straight into questions. We're not going to break it out into first hour and second hour like we usually do. We will be done no later than 5:15 p.m., unless anybody strenuously objects to that and wants to go longer.
I suggest that we hear from our witnesses in the order in which they are listed on the agenda.
We will start with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
The floor is yours.