I'd like to call the meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 23 of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources, and the second meeting in our current study.
To our witnesses, I just want to say thank you for coming and welcome. Some of you may have been here before, but for those of you who haven't, it's obvious that we're doing this in a virtual format, which brings with it certain challenges. We need to be patient when others are speaking and not try to speak over others, and make sure that other people have finished talking before you speak—all of the things our mothers taught us when we were young children, basically.
If you need translation, there's a button at the bottom of your screen that should provide that for you. You're welcome to and encouraged to speak in either or both official languages. You will almost certainly be asked questions in both. If you're having any challenges, please feel free to raise your hand or raise your voice.
My job, in part, is to keep track of time, which means that from time to time I may have to interrupt and stop people for going over the time limits. We do have time limits for introductory remarks and questions.
Having said that, each witness group will be given up to five minutes to make opening remarks and then, after all of the witnesses have finished, we open the floor to questions. All of our witnesses are here, with the exception of Enbridge, which hopefully will be joining us in due course.
Welcome everybody. We have Énergir, Enerkem, Evolugen and Fortis Inc. I think it probably makes sense if we just start in the order that you appear on the agenda, in which case, Ms. Trudeau, you will be starting us off for five minutes.