To all the witnesses, welcome to our pre-budget consultations. Just so you understand what we're doing for the next few minutes, before the start of a meeting we never have enough time for all the witnesses, so when we're on the road we do open-mike sessions. We give people the opportunity to make a one-minute statement at the mikes that are on the floor. There are no questions from members on the statements, but they do go into the record of our pre-budget consultations.
We'll start the open-mike session now. Please try to keep it to about one minute, if you could.
We'll start with Mary McKenna from Fredericton.
Mary, the floor is yours.