Order, please. I call this meeting to order; it's meeting number 62 of the Standing Committee on Finance.
We are here, colleagues, discussing Bill C-51, an act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on January 27, 2009.
We have with us, for the next hour and a half, six organizations presenting on this piece of legislation. We have the Canadian Home Builders' Association, Home Depot Canada, the Canadian Labour Congress, Fédération des femmes du Québec, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and FADOQ Mouvement des Aînés du Québec.
Welcome to the committee, all of you. Thank you for being with us.
You each have up to five minutes for an opening statement. We will start with the Canadian Home Builders' Association.