I call the 40th meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance to order. We're continuing our discussion on pre-budget consultations.
Colleagues, we have with us here today six organizations for an hour and a half, so it will be a short time period for a number of organizations and their ideas on the next budget.
We'll name the groups in the order in which they will present to the committee: first, the National Association of Friendship Centres; second, Bioniche Life Sciences Incorporated; third, the Canadian Federation of University Women; fourth, the International Association of Fire Fighters; next, the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies; and finally, the Canadian Trucking Alliance.
We would ask each of you to speak for a maximum of five minutes. I will indicate when you have about a minute left in your time. Then we will go to questions from members.
Mr. Dinsdale, we'll begin with your presentation, please.