I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number six of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities. Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House order of September 23, 2020. Proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website.
So you are aware, the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entirety of the committee.
To ensure an orderly meeting, I would like to outline a few rules to follow.
Members and witnesses may speak in the official language of their choice. Interpretation services are available for this meeting. You have the choice at the bottom of your screen of “Floor”, “English” or “French”.
For members participating in person, proceed as you usually would when the whole committee is meeting in person in a committee room. Keep in mind the directives from the Board of Internal Economy regarding masking and health protocols.
Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name. If you are on video conference, please click on the microphone icon to unmute yourself. For those in the room, microphones will be controlled as normal by the proceedings and verification officer.
I will give a reminder that all comments by members and witnesses should be addressed through the chair.
When you are not speaking, your microphone should be on mute.
With regard to a speaking list, the committee clerk and I will do the best we can to maintain the order of speaking that has been agreed upon by all members, whether you are participating virtually or in person.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the committee is meeting today to continue its study on the aircraft certification process.
With that, we have heard in the past a great deal of testimony. Although words alone can never express our sorrow to those who lost their lives and their families, please recognize our most sincere sympathies to those who were affected.
May I now welcome our witnesses. For the first round, we have, from the victim families of Ethiopian flight 302, Chris Moore and Paul Njoroge.
Gentlemen, you both have five minutes to speak, and then we will have questions from our committee members. That will take us into the hour.
I'm not sure whether it is going to be Paul or Chris who is going to go first.
Paul, are you going first?