GREETINGS FROM OHIO SENATOR SHERROD BROWN.

• Author: Brown, Sherrod
• Position: Proceedings of the 43rd Canada-United States Law Institute Annual Conference: Can the United States and Canada Cooperate on Climate Change?

MR. PETRAS: Well, good afternoon, everyone. If I could have your attention, we will--we are going to start the afternoon program now. I have one question, David Terry, if you could identify yourself, you need to speak with Dick Cunningham right there--

MR. TERRY: Okay.

MR. PETRAS: But welcome, everyone, to our afternoon session of the Canada-United States Law Institute. At this time, I would like to recognize certain individuals with respect to this conference. And first of all, I want to recognize the executive committee, which really functions as the board of directors of the Canada-United States Law Institute, which is an institute between Case Western Reserve University School of Law and the University of Western Ontario's faculty of law. So I am going to read out the names of our executive. If you could stand when I read your names. All right. Dick Cunningham, Larry Herman, Jim Blanchard, James Graham, Raul Rosado, Jim Peterson, Selma Lussenburg. I just saw Selma, she is not here right now. Rick Newcomb, yeah, Rick; Diane Francis, who unfortunately can't be here; Chris Sands, who cannot be here, Peter MacKay, Chi Carmody, Michael Scharf, who is the Dean of Case Law School and Erika Chamberlain, they are not here right now. She is the Dean of the University of Western Ontario's law faculty.

I also want to give special thanks to those who worked hard to make sure this conference was put on and run smoothly: Aylin Drabousky in the back over there; Brian Glaviano--Brian Glaviano, if you see him, he is the one with the camera. Of course, my partner in all of this, Ted Parran. Ted.

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MR. PETRAS: Finally, I also--before we start the program, want to give special thanks to our sponsors who financially support this institute. Without them, we can't do the things that we do, and I want to give special thanks to our platinum sponsor, one of our deep supporters over the years DLA Piper, Rick Newcomb and Jim Blanchard of DLA Piper.

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MR. PETRAS: Our gold sponsor this year is the Government of Canada through its Consul office in Detroit, and we are here with Joe Comartin. So Joe, thank you very much.

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MR. PETRAS: Silver sponsors are the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, Herman and Associates, Cleveland Cliffs, James Graham here, and the law firm of Baker Hostetler.

And finally, our bronze sponsors: Taft, Stettinius and Hollister and Bruce Lowe; Formica Corporation, thank you very much and Barudan America. So let's thank...