Thanks very much, Lucia; and thanks to all who presented. I know one minute is a fairly short period of time, but we do take your points seriously.
With that, we have all our people here for the panel. Before we start, thank you for coming as witnesses, and for any who managed to present a pre-budget submission prior to the August deadline, which seems a long time ago now, we appreciate those submissions as well.
To give you a little overview of the members here on this committee, it is a subcommittee of the parliamentary committee. There are a number of members. We travel with seven people and not the full committee. I might mention that our female participant isn't able to travel on this leg with us.
In any event, I will ask the members to introduce themselves and where they come from, so you'll know the cross-section of the country we represent.
I'm Wayne Easter. I'm a member of Parliament from Prince Edward Island, the riding of Malpeque. If you have good oysters out here, that's where they come from. I'm a member of the government party.
Pierre-Luc, do you want to start, please?