I declare the 54th meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance in order.
This is our second day in Toronto, the ninth city in our cross-Canada pre-budget consultations. We're very pleased to be here in Toronto. We have four panels today, with an hour and a half for each panel. We'll be hearing about 60 witnesses in two days here.
I'll list the organizations we have with us here this morning in order of presentation to the committee: the Canadian Health Food Association, McMaster University, the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Media Guild, Mr. Chris Smith as an individual, the Canadian Federation of Students Ontario, the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians, and GrowthWorks Capital Ltd.
I welcome all of you and thank you for being here this morning.
We'll start with the Canadian Health Food Association.
Each of you has five minutes as an organization for an opening statement, and then we'll have questions from members.