I will call the meeting to order. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the committee is commencing its study of the third report of the Advisory Council on Economic Growth.
With us we have Dominic Barton, the chair of the Advisory Council on Economic Growth.
Welcome, Mr. Barton. Thank you for making the time. We had a bit of difficulty trying to catch up with you in Tokyo last week, and now we hear that you're in Australia. You're a hard man to keep track of.
Anyway, Mr. Barton, just to say at the beginning, we do appreciate the work that the advisory council has done and your ability to bring a global perspective and a very impressive depth of knowledge from the people who are on that committee. I think everyone has a copy of the report and went through it.
I'm not sure whether you have an opening statement, but I'll turn it over to you. We'll hear what you have to say and then go to questions. I understand that we have about an hour and a half.