Welcome everyone to this 18th meeting of the Legislative Committee on Bill C-30.
We have a very full agenda today. So let us start right away.
Thank you to the witnesses for showing up on time. I would request that we pass on to our fellow members of the committee that timeliness is important.
We have a full schedule today. I anticipate we'll probably have to drop off the last two questioners to get in a little bit of business.
We can commence to hear testimony with a quorum of five. That's what we have, so we are going to proceed.
Today we'd like to welcome, from the Canadian Labour Congress, Marie Clarke-Walker, executive vice-president; and Andrew Jackson, national director of social and economic policy. From the Canadian Renewable Fuels Association we have Mr. Bliss Baker, chair. From Iogen Corp. we have Jeff Passmore, executive vice-president. From the Office of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development we have Mr. Ron Thompson, interim commissioner; and Mr. Richard Arsenault, principal.
By video conference from Vancouver we have Michael Brown, chairman, Chrysalix Management Inc. Thank you again, Mr. Brown, for getting up so early out in Vancouver to join us.
Before we proceed, a memorandum was passed to members of the committee by the clerk giving you notice of some of the people you may want to contact about getting down to clause-by-clause after we come back from the break. There are phone numbers and contacts there for the legislation counsel, the legislative clerk, and the Library of Parliament analysts. That's some information you'll need when we proceed after the break.
Witnesses, we typically give each of you about 10 minutes to tell us about tools and fiscal issues with respect to Bill C-30—we're trying to focus on that. Then we go to questioning from the various sides of the room.
We'll start with the Canadian Labour Congress and Marie Clarke-Walker.