If we could, please, we will come to order. This is our eighth meeting pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the pre-budget consultations for the budget for 2016.
I'd like to thank those witnesses who are here today. I know that some of you are operating on quite short notice, and we would certainly like to thank you for coming here to put forward your views in this pre-budget consultation.
We will try fairly strenuously to limit the presentations to five minutes so that we can have a fair bit of time for questioning.
To start, as individuals, we have with us Robert Boadway, who is a professor in the department of economics at Queen's University, and Carey Bonnell, head of the school of fisheries at the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University.
Go ahead, please.