Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us this afternoon.
We have three witnesses. We're going to go until five o'clock. We'll get through two rounds of questions, I anticipate, then we're going to have some committee business after that.
With us, we have Mr. Grant Sullivan who is the executive director of Gwich'in Council International. Thank you for joining us.
By video conference, we have Ellis Ross, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Hopefully you can see and hear us.
We also have Nils Andreassen, the executive director of Alaska Municipal League.
Gentlemen, the process is that each of you will be given up to 10 minutes to deliver some opening remarks. If you go over 10 minutes, I may have to interrupt you and bring things to the next stage. Hopefully, I won't have to do that. Following that we'll have questions from around the table.
Mr. Sullivan, why don't we start with you since you are in the room?