I call the eleventh meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance to order. The orders today, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), are for the beginning of our study on measures to enhance credit availability and the stability of the Canadian financial system.
We have two organizations with us this morning. First, from the Department of Finance we have Mr. Jeremy Rudin, the assistant deputy minister for the financial sector policy branch. Hopefully, momentarily we will have Mr. Tiff Macklem, the associate deputy minister, as well.
The second organization we have is the Business Development Bank of Canada. We have the president and CEO, Mr. Jean-René Halde.
Welcome to both organizations. I was going to start with Mr. Macklem, but perhaps I'll start with the BDC, and then we'll go to the Department of Finance second.