Chair, thank you very much, and thanks to all committee members and to witnesses. It's a very important day. I want to first of all acknowledge and thank the efforts of my colleague, Anthony Rota, and our party, for moving the motion in the industry committee and the complementary motions that have taken place in other committees. I think we all take this issue very seriously. We're now starting to get it, albeit for some of you, and those you represent, perhaps this has been a very painful ordeal.
I'd like to begin by trying get a better understanding more specifically, not for this committee, but for those who are watching this, those who have an interest in seeing Parliament unfold.
I want to hear from your perspectives, each and every one of you, specific details, ideas as to how your members have been affected. I appreciate the coalition of the CFIB coming forward. I want to hear what this has done for ordinary business in Canada and whether or not you perceive this to be a distortion that is impairing the proper and efficient running of our marketplace.
I'll start with you, Ms. Swift, if I could.