I call to order meeting number 48 of the Standing Committee on Finance.
According to our orders of the day, pursuant to Standing Order 83.1, we are continuing our pre-budget consultations 2014.
I want to thank all of our guests for being here for this first panel discussion.
Colleagues, we have two panels today and also votes, so we'll be a little compressed in our second panel.
We have with us today from the Canadian Airports Council, Mr. Mark Laroche. From the Canadian Electricity Association, we have Mr. Ron Gentle. From the Canadian Home Builders' Association, we have the president, Bard Golightly. From the Federation of Canadian Municipalities we have the president, Mr. Brad Woodside, who is also the Mayor of Fredericton—in Mike Allen's province. From the Large Urban Mayors' Caucus of Ontario we have the chair, Mr. Jeff Lehman, who is the Mayor of the City of Barrie.
Welcome and thank you so much for being with us. You each have five minutes for your opening presentation, and then we'll have questions from all of our members.
We'll start with Mr. Laroche, please.