This meeting in Regina, pursuant to Standing Order 83(1), is part of our pre-budget consultations in advance of the 2017 budget.
We're pleased to be here and thank all of the witnesses here today. We appreciate all of the briefs that were presented at an earlier time. We'll go through all of them and see where we can go in terms of recommendations.
As well, people know from the questions that we sent out that beyond the pre-budget consultations, the theme we are working on is how we can achieve better economic growth in Canada. If you have any ideas or any suggestions on that, we're open to them.
Before we start the official presentations, I will ask members of the committee to introduce themselves and just say where their riding is.
I'm Wayne Easter, chair of the committee, and member for the riding of Malpeque in Prince Edward Island.