Good morning and May God Bless Us All, To open my speech here today, I would like to invite you all to join me in expressing thanks and praise to God Almighty who has blessed us again with the opportunity to come together here for this seminar.
I am sure that the effects of these developments, especially on primary commodities, such as oil and nickel, are already very familiar to Newfoundlanders. To understand what is going on, we need to look at the nature of the forces that are currently affecting our economy.