I declare the 53rd meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance in order.
It's wonderful to be here in Toronto. We have two days here. We have a total of eight panels over the next two days. This is our final city on our nine-day tour across Canada for pre-budget consultations.
In the first panel this morning, for an hour and a half, we have six organizations with us. I'll read their names in order of their presentations to the committee: the College Student Alliance, the Canadian Dance Assembly, the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario, the Employer Coalition for Advanced Skills, Colleges Ontario, and the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres.
Thanks to all of you for being with us here this morning. You each have up to five minutes for an opening statement and then we will go to questions from members of all parties on the committee.
We'll start with the College Student Alliance, please.