Colleagues, I will ask you to find your seats, please. We will begin our second panel right away.
We have two organizations. First of all, from the Conference Board of Canada, we have Mr. Glen Hodgson, who is the senior vice-president and chief economist.
We have two individuals from the Canadian Worker Co-operative Federation, Monsieur Alain Bridault, président, and Ms. Hazel Corcoran, executive director.
We have, as an individual, Mr. Ian Lee, the director of the MBA program, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University.
If I can ask each of you to give your opening presentations, we'll start with Mr. Hodgson for between seven and ten minutes, please.