I call the meeting to order. I apologize that we're getting started a few minutes late. We were having a little bit of technical difficulty with our video conference, and our witness there is waiting for some logistics.
Nonetheless, one of our witnesses who was to appear this afternoon on our first afternoon panel, the Desjardins Group, is here and has indicated that he would be comfortable sitting in on this morning's panel instead. Given that we may or may not have our initial witness appearing by video conference, I think that would be a wise idea. If I don't hear any objection from the committee, I'm going to ask him to join us this morning.
Does anyone have a concern with that? I don't hear any, so I will invite Mr. Brun from the Desjardins Group to come to the table as well.
Our panel this morning will consist of Brigitte Gagné from the Conseil canadien de la coopération et de la mutualité, and Mr. Brun from the Desjardins Group. We are expecting our witness by video conference from the Quality Deer Management Association to join us as well. We will start off with Ms. Gagné and then move to Mr. Brun, and if our video conference witness is able to join us we'll have him go third.
I will now turn the floor over to Ms. Gagné to make opening remarks. You have up to 10 minutes.