Thank you so much for those opening comments.
I should say how much we appreciate the work your office does. I reside on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Kwantlen, Katzie, Matsqui, and Semiahmoo nations. I just wanted to acknowledge those are the territories I live on in British Columbia.
Colleagues, I also should have mentioned that we did do the sound checks with everybody for today, and everybody has passed.
We're hoping that everybody can stay with us. We do need to suspend now. We'll come back to opening statements from the other witnesses. I need to allow 10 minutes once the vote is called for members to get back to committee. At that point, we will be able to resume, so we'll be out for probably about 20 to 25 minutes.
We have resources to support us today until six o'clock. We cannot go beyond six o'clock. I hope our witnesses are able to stay with us for the duration of the meeting. If we get through our rounds of questions earlier, we'll definitely let you go. We have some committee business that we would like to get to as well.
For the moment, colleagues and guests, we are suspended.