Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
To our witnesses, I want to say thank you very much for your patience. I know we were scheduled to start at 6:30, but Parliament being what it is, we had some votes we had to deal with.
We have a full agenda here this evening.
From the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, we have Jayson Myers, president and CEO; from the Building and Construction Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, we have Christopher Smillie, senior advisor; from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, we have David Collyer, president; from the Canadian Nuclear Association, we have Denise Carpenter, president and chief executive officer; from the Federation of Ontario Cottagers' Associations, we have Terry Rees, executive director; and from the Ontario Commercial Fisheries' Association, we have Mr. Peter Meisenheimer, executive director.
To our witnesses, our orders are those of the natural resources committee. For the first two hours we'll have presentations of up to 10 minutes from each of you, and then we'll have rounds of questioning from colleagues at the table.
I didn't solicit who would go first, so I'm just going to go based on the order you appear on the list.
We'll start with Mr. Myers, please, for up to 10 minutes.