Pursuant to Standing Order 83.1, I call the Standing Committee on Finance to order. This is meeting number 59. We're continuing our 2009 pre-budget consultations.
Colleagues, we have two panels this morning. Each panel is an hour and a half. We have eight organizations in the first panel: the Association of Equipment Manufacturers, the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Cement Association of Canada, the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada, the Canadian Federation of Apartment Associations, the Ontario Funeral Service Association, and the Ontario-Quebec Grain Farmers' Coalition.
Each of you has up to five minutes for an opening statement. We will proceed in that order, and we will start with Mr. Mains, please.