We'll call the meeting to order.
Pursuant to Standing Order 83.1, we are undertaking pre-budget consultations in advance of the 2018 budget.
I want to thank all the witnesses for coming and also to thank those of you who sent in submissions prior to the middle of August. That's very helpful as well, and those submissions are on people's iPads.
Before we start, let me say that we have a vote at six o'clock. I'm not sure whether we were able to notify everyone in panel two, but I wonder whether we could try to do both panels and be complete at 5:55 p.m. If we started the second panel at 4:45 instead of 5:00, we could do that, because we're not far from the House; otherwise, we're going to have panel members sitting here waiting for half an hour or longer.
Would it be okay to try to do that?