Welcome to our second panel guests. We appreciate your being here.
We are the finance committee of the House of Commons, charged with the onerous responsibility of hearing from fellow Canadians across the country. I'm told that over 450 submissions will be received by our committee by the end of this process. We very much appreciate your preparing your briefs and being here today.
Some of you observed the previous panel perhaps, but I'll give you an indication when you have one minute or less remaining, and then we'll abruptly and quite brusquely cut you off at five minutes. I urge you to use just the five minutes, so we allow time for an exchange with committee members after your presentations.
We will proceed with the Visual Artists Newfoundland and Labrador, Marlene Creates. Welcome, and five minutes to you.