I call this meeting to order. This is the 66th meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance.
The orders of the day, pursuant to the order of reference of Monday, May 14, 2012, are continuing our study of Bill C-38, an act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 29, 2012, and other measures.
Colleagues, we have with us two panels here this morning.
In the first panel, we have six presenters.
We have Mr. Patrick Grady, an economist with Global Economics; we have Mr. Richard Kurland, who is a policy analyst and attorney; we have Mr. Ian Lee, professor at the Sprott School of Business, at Carleton University; we have Mr. Lorne Waldman with us as well; representing the Canadian Federation of Students, we have Madame Roxanne Dubois, national chairperson; and from Oxfam Canada, we have Mark Fried, the policy coordinator.
Welcome to all of you. Thank you for being with us. You each have up to five minutes maximum for an opening statement.
We will start with Mr. Grady and work our way down the line.