As the witnesses certainly know, these are the consultations in advance of the 2018 budget. We welcome the witnesses for panel two in Toronto.
You'll see members looking at their iPads from time to time. For those who presented a submission prior to the early August deadline, those submissions are on members' iPads. They are part of the consideration for the budget. I think we received 423 submissions.
I notice a couple of members are not in the room yet, so before we start, I would ask members to introduce themselves to kind of give everyone a tenor of where we are from across the country. This is a subcommittee of the finance committee. We don't travel with the full committee.
I'm Wayne Easter, a member of Parliament from Prince Edward Island. My riding is Malpeque. If you eat any of those Malpeque oysters that we ship to Toronto, they come from my riding. They're good for your health and vitality. The riding stretches from Summerside to Charlottetown.
We'll start with Ms. O'Connell, who has a Toronto riding.