As witnesses understand, this is the Standing Committee on Finance. Pursuant to Standing Order 83.1, we're doing pre-budget consultations for the 2017 budget.
We are missing a couple of members. They must be thinking it's more important to talk on the phone at the moment.
In any event, we would hope that witnesses in their presentations can hold their remarks to about five minutes. All the presentations that have come in have been translated and are on our iPads, so you'll find that the members will be going to their electronic documents now and again during a presentation. Some people do find that distracting.
Before we start, I'll ask those members who are here to introduce themselves so that the witnesses know they you're talking to.
Perhaps we could start with you, Pierre-Luc.