Ms. Lower-Basch, thank you so kindly for taking your time to be here with us, and certainly we do appreciate this bilateral conversation.
We have now another guest with us here today. We have Mr. Andrew McWhinnie.
I would just bring to the committee's attention that Mr. McWhinnie had a number of documents that he presented to the committee to be distributed today, but as they have not been translated, they will not be distributed today. They will be given to the committee at a later date, obviously.
Of course, we will now hear from Mr. McWhinnie and perhaps in his narrative he can attest to some of the documentation that he has and make his case. After that we will open the floor to questions for both of our witnesses.
Please stand by, Ms. Lower-Basch.
You have the floor now, Mr. McWhinnie.