Welcome. Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. Honourable Members and colleagues, it gives me a great deal of pleasure to be able to introduce and recognize visitors in the gallery, the delegates from Taimyr Autonomous Okrug, in Russia, the Speaker, Viktor Sitnov.
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He is the speaker of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug, and Member of the federation council. Accompanying him is Semyon Palchin, the deputy governor of Taimyr Autonomous Okrug.
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Vladimir Luzgin, the chair of the committee on legislation, Taimyr Autonomous Okrug.
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Yuri Galushko is the senior specialist, PR department, Norilsk Nickel.
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Enver Batchayev is the assistant to Mr. Sitnov.
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Accompanying them is Richard Colvin, with the Canadian Russian Parliamentary Program.
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Welcome to the Assembly. We had a bit of a tour here, and I learned quite a few things from the Speaker from the Duma. To get order in the House, he raps on the table. I will see if I can incorporate that. Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Yellowknife South, Mr. Bell.