I call this meeting to order.
I apologize for the slight delay in getting started this morning. The committee just prior to ours did not get out until 10 a.m.
I want to welcome everyone here this morning. We are continuing our pre-budget consultations for 2011 in advance of next year's budget.
We have two panels here this morning. In the first panel, we have seven individual organizations: first, the Tax Executives Institute, Inc.; second, the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada; third, the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations; fourth, the Canadian Electricity Association; fifth, the Shipbuilding Association of Canada; sixth, the Canadian Council for International Co-operation; and seventh, as an individual, Mr. Donald Johnson, who is well known to all of us at the finance committee.
We welcome all of you. We have an hour and a half for this session. It's a short time period, both for presenters and for members, so we will ask you to keep the length of your comments to a maximum of five minutes for opening statements for each organization. Then we will start with members' questions.
We'll start with Mr. Penney, please.