I call this meeting to order. I apologize for the lateness. We had some technical difficulty this morning in getting the microphones working, which is why our previous session went over time.
I want to thank all of our witnesses for coming in to participate in our pre-budget consultations for 2011. We have seven organizations presenting to us during this panel.
We have first of all the Assembly of First Nations, the Canadian Public Works Association, the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, the First Nations Tax Commission, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, and YWCA Canada.
Thank you all for being with us. You will have up to five minutes for opening statements. As we have a very full panel, I will ask you to keep to that five minutes, and then we'll have members' questions after that. We'll start with the Assembly of First Nations.