Colleagues, I'm going to call us to order again. Welcome back.
Let me start off with an apology to our witnesses. Thank you very much for your patience. We were interrupted by votes, so we've lost a little time. We're going to be a little shorter in this round, but not much. You'll have an opportunity to respond to questions.
Let me welcome, from the First Nations Major Project Coalition, Dr. Suzanne von der Porten, vice-president of clean energy strategy for that organization. From the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, we have Heather Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment.
Both witnesses have done the mandatory witness onboarding test.
I'll make a few comments to you both online for your benefit and for ours.
Committee members may ask questions in either French or English. If you will need interpretation, please take a moment now to prepare your earpiece and select the listening channel you need in advance in order to take full advantage of the time allotted for questions and answers.
All comments should be addressed through the chair.
Each of you will have five minutes for your opening remarks, after which we will open the floor for questions and comments.
Dr. von der Porten, we're going to start with you, and you have five minutes. Please proceed.