I call this meeting to order.
Welcome, everybody, to our 25th meeting of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources. Again, thank you, everybody, for the patience. Technical problems sometimes occur. Today was an example of that.
We're going to jump right in. I should let everybody know that I was going to stop a few minutes before three, because we have one or two very quick housekeeping items we have to deal with before the meeting ends to prepare for our meeting on Monday. However, in the absence of any strenuous objections and because we're starting a bit late, I might just go a little bit beyond three o'clock to do that.
Jumping in then, I want to welcome our panels of witnesses. We have six witness groups today, which is fantastic. The process, for those of you who may not be familiar with it, is that each set of witnesses will get up to five minutes to make opening remarks. Once all of the opening remarks have been completed, we'll open the floor to questions from members.
You are welcome to and encouraged to speak in either official language. You have translation services available to you. It requires a little bit of patience to do meetings virtually. Try not to speak over others when they are talking. There are a lot of people in this meeting. I will do my very best to get names right today, because there seemed to be a lot of identity appropriation going on before the start of the meeting. I will try to work around that as best I can and not call on anybody incorrectly.
I will start then at the top of our agenda. Appearing today as an individual, I would like to welcome Dr. Amit Kumar.
Professor, the floor is yours.