I call the meeting to order.
I have been reminded that we can receive testimony with reduced quorum. We have four members, including two members of the opposition, so we will get started.
Welcome to our guests today. We have, from the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Yves Giroux, Parliamentary Budget Officer, and Jason Jacques, senior director, costing and budgetary analysis. Welcome to the committee today.
We'll get into your opening statement. We'll give you up to 10 minutes. Then we'll get into our rounds of questions and answers for an hour. In one hour, we'll end and go into closed session. That's how the day will go today.
Just so everybody is reminded, we had a motion brought forward that the committee schedule one meeting with the Parliamentary Budget Officer to discuss the recent report, “Fiscal and Distributional Analysis of the Federal Carbon Pricing System”. That's the intent of the meeting today, and we'll spend one hour having that discussion.
With that, Mr. Giroux, I'll turn it over to you for your opening statement.