Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Before we proceed, I would like to inform the committee that the list of members eligible to vote includes the following: Jamie Schmale, Gary Vidal, Arnold Viersen, Bob Zimmer, Sylvie Bérubé, Leah Gazan, Jaime Battiste, Pam Damoff, Marcus Powlowski, Adam van Koeverden

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The witness was speaking English, but we do offer third language interpretation with advance notice.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'll check that out right away.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Mr. Jules, if you click on the interpretation button, which is the globe at the bottom of your screen, a menu will open up. You should have three options—off, English and French. English will need to be selected.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Can you hear me properly now with the interpretation?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It has been resolved. The phone lines were reversed. Everything is good now.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Ms. Belleau, may I ask you to look at the bottom of your screen? You'll see a “Participants” button and then an “Interpretation” button. If you click on the “Interpretation” button—it looks like a globe—you'll see “English” and “French”. Please select “English”. Then you'll be ab

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. Perhaps we could hear a bit from Ms. Whitman right now so we can check the audio quality again to see if anything has improved. Ms. Whitman.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes. We were told there was a problem with the phone lines being scrambled. They are resetting the phone lines right now.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Perhaps we should suspend for a moment while I try to get this sorted out.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm told that the languages are working well on ParlVU right now, if staff wish to listen there.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Ms. Cloutier, if you look at the bottom of your screen, you will see a button for interpretation. When you speak French, you must click on the button and then select “Français”.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm being asked if you could move your microphone slightly away.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We do not have any briefs.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  However, Mr. Schmale and Mr. Viersen have raised their hands.