Order.
Good afternoon. I hope everyone is doing well.
Thank you for appearing before the committee. We're here for our pre-budget consultations pursuant to Standing Order 83.1.
For anybody who hasn't appeared before, the way it works is that you will have five minutes to present your statement or brief. The members will then have a question and answer period to ask you questions.
I would appreciate it if you could keep your interventions to five minutes. I'll try to put my hand up to signal you at one minute. I sometimes get too involved in your presentation, so I might not do it, but please try to stick to the five minutes.
Your testimony is also going to be recorded. It's on the record. So anything you say will be and can be held against you by other members. If you notice, we don't have a good representation of members, but that's because we've had a little bit of a mix-up. The Conservatives messed up a little bit on introducing a budget bill in the House, so we're stuck with some members not being able to make it out here because of a snowstorm in the east and others because of parliamentary procedure. But as I said, the transcripts will be made available to all members, and they have access to the meetings, just as you will have as well, on the website.
Without further ado, we can start with Mr. Derwyn Davies as an individual.
Go ahead for five minutes, please.