Thank you very much, and thank you for relating that personal experience.
With that, then, we will start the official witnesses.
Before we do, just for the record, as everyone already knows, these are pre-budget consultations in advance of the 2019 budget. We have received submissions from everyone who put one in prior to August 15. We have received them and they are on people's iPads or units that they have, so people will be referring to those from time to time to ask questions.
Before we start, I would like to go around the room to give you, as witnesses, a view of where members come from and what parties and what regions they represent.
I'm Wayne Easter. I'm the chair of the committee, and I'm a government member from Prince Edward Island, the riding of Malpeque.