I'll ask my colleagues to take their seats, please. We're on a very tight timeline today.
I call this meeting back to order, pursuant to the order of reference of Wednesday, June 13, 2012, for a study of income inequality in Canada.
We want to welcome an additional four witnesses to this session. We have, first of all, from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Mr. Gregory Thomas, federal director.
We welcome Yanick Labrie, economist from the Montreal Economic Institute. Welcome to the committee.
We have two gentlemen from Vancouver via video conference. Presenting as an individual today, we have Mr. Jason Clemens. From the Fraser Institute, we have Mr. Charles Lammam, associate director, Centre for Tax and Budget Policy and Centre for Studies in Economic Prosperity.
Welcome to all of you.
We have just under an hour here for this panel, so we're going to ask you to keep your presentations to a maximum of five minutes.
We will begin with Mr. Thomas, please.