My colleagues, I wish to draw your attention to the presence in our gallery of four recipients of the governor general performing arts awards.
I am going to introduce them individually, but I would ask you to hold your applause until I have introduced our four recipients: singer/songwriter, Mr. Gordon Lightfoot; metteur en scène de théatre, Mr. Jean-Pierre Ronfard; conductor and impresario, Mr. Nicholas Goldschmidt; and the co-founder of the National Ballet School, Miss Betty Oliphant.