I declare the 50th meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance in order. We are continuing our discussions with respect to pre-budget consultations for 2009.
We have our third panel of the day for the next hour and a half. We have eight organizations before the committee. I'll read out the names of the organizations in order of presentation: Independent Living Canada; the Canadian Federation of Students; Campaign 2000; the Business Tax Reform Coalition; the Canadian Chemical Producers' Association; the Canadian Consortium for Research; the Alliance to End Homelessness; and the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies.
I welcome all of you. Thank you for being with us here today and thank you for your submissions to the committee. You will each have up to five minutes for an opening statement and then we will have questions from members of all parties.
Independent Living Canada isn't here yet, so we'll start with the Canadian Federation of Students, please.