I call the meeting to order. This meeting is held pursuant to Standing Order 83.1, pre-budget consultations in advance of the 2018 budget.
Welcome. I want to thank all the witnesses for appearing today, and also to thank those who were able to provide us with more substantive submissions prior to the August deadline. They are on our iPads. They've all been gone through, so you will see members from time to time looking at their iPads to see if you're saying the same thing today as you said then. However, I am aware that there are some issues that have emerged since August that are of concern to some people.
We will try to hold the witnesses to five-minute comments. We do have to suspend this session at 4:45 p.m., so that we can get the second panel done prior to votes tonight.
Again, I welcome all. We'll start with the Association of Canadian Publishers. We have Mr. Rollans who is the president, and Ms. Edwards who is the executive director.
Welcome, the floor is yours.