I was going to get to that when I introduced the witnesses. It's a good question. I did speak to Mr. Simard about it.
The issue is that the executive team for the Canada Energy Regulator are all sick, including some who are apparently in quite bad shape. We reached out and reserved a spot for a week from Thursday. They said they have found people who they hope will be able to participate on this Thursday's panel, but that will be confirmed when the notice for the Thursday meeting goes out, probably later today or tomorrow. They will be appearing. It was supposed to be today, but now we're hoping to get them with the agencies, so we should be hearing from them as early as this Thursday.
We do have appearing today representatives from the Department of Natural Resources, the Business Development Bank of Canada, the Canada Development Investment Corporation, the Department of Finance, the Department of the Environment, and Export Development Canada.
What we'll do now is go into five-minute opening statements from each of the departments. Then, once we're done the opening statements, we'll get into our rounds of questions, starting with six-minute rounds for each of the parties.
I believe Mr. Dufour from the Department of Natural Resources is going to speak first.
Mr. Dufour, I'll turn the floor over to you. You have five minutes.