I call this meeting to order.
This is the 92nd meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance. Pursuant to Standing Order 83.1, we are continuing our pre-budget consultations for 2012.
Colleagues, we have two panels before us this afternoon and early evening. In our first panel, we have six organizations presenting. We have, first of all, the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO; the Canadian Bureau for International Education; the Canadian Psychological Association; the Council of Ontario Universities; the Grain Growers of Canada; and Nature Conservancy of Canada.
Welcome to all of you. Thank you for being with us here this afternoon.
You each have five minutes maximum for an opening statement.
We'll start with Mr. Smillie, and we'll work our way down the panel here.
Please begin.