I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 11 of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources. This meeting is on the forest industry.
Today we have two witnesses scheduled for the first hour and a half, and then at 2:30 we are going to suspend and go in camera to discuss some committee business, including the balance of this report.
Before we get into the introduction of the witnesses, which I will do in a second, I want to chat briefly about something that happened at the end of the last meeting. We ran out of time when we were going into committee business. I understand that Mr. McLean wanted to present something at the time, which didn't happen. I subsequently spoke to Mr. McLean.
To the extent there was any confusion on Monday about process and how that happened, I will take responsibility, and I apologize. I understand that Mr. McLean is going to be the first person asking questions today, but to avoid cutting into his time, I would like to offer him the floor right now for a few minutes to allow him to do what he was trying to do on Monday.
Mr. McLean, again, you have my apologies for the confusion on Monday. It was a misunderstanding on my part. I'm yielding the floor to you to allow you to do what you were going to do on Monday.