I call the 52nd meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance to order. We have with us here today seven organizations for the first panel and a number of organizations for the second panel.
The finance committee is completing its pre-budget consultations across Canada. This is our eighth out of nine cities across the country. We finish in Toronto tomorrow or the next day.
We're very pleased to be here in Winnipeg today. This morning we have with us the Winnipeg Airports Authority Inc., the Association of Manitoba Municipalities, the University of Manitoba, the Rural Municipality of Alexander, the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg, the Canadian Nurses Association, and Genome Prairie.
I thank you all for being with us here this morning.
Each panel will be an hour and a half in length. We'll have each organization present their brief for up to five minutes in an opening statement in the order that I outlined. Then we'll proceed to questions from the members of the committee.
We'll start with the Winnipeg Airports Authority, please.