Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Regina.
This is the 51st meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance. This is the seventh of nine cities we are visiting as the committee is going right across Canada to hear from organizations and individuals.
We are here in Regina this morning and then we are going to Weyburn this afternoon to do a site visit to the EnCana facility there, so we're very excited about that as well.
We have here with us this morning seven organizations. I'll read out their names in order of presentation: the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities; Saskatchewan Telecommunications, better known as SaskTel; the Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association; the Canadian Medical Association; the Canadian Real Estate Association; the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce; and finally, EnCana Corporation.
Each organization will have five minutes for an opening statement and then we will go to questions from members.
We'll start with the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities.