I call this meeting to order. This is the 67th meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance.
I want to thank our witnesses for being here, and Mr. Jackson for joining us from British Columbia.
I want to apologize. We had some committee business to deal with.
We have five presenters here during the first panel: we have a professor from the University of Toronto, Mr. Aurel Braun; from the organization Canada Without Poverty, we have the executive director, Rob Rainer; from the Canadian Association of University Teachers, we have the executive director, James Turk; from the Canadian Medical Association, we have the past president, Jeffrey Turnbull; and by video conference, we have Mr. Michael Jackson, professor, Faculty of Law at UBC.
You each have up to five minutes for an opening statement.
We'll start with Mr. Braun and work our way down.