I call the meeting to order. We are continuing our pre-budget consultations on the 2020 budget.
I want to thank all the witnesses for coming on fairly short notice. I also thank those who wrote submissions prior to the August deadline. Those submissions have been brought forward, and will be considered as part of the pre-budget consultations. They are not left to gather dust.
We are tight for time. If you can hold your remarks to roughly five minutes, that would be helpful. With that we'll have more time for questions. We have a dead stop just slightly before eight o'clock.
We will begin with Kevin Lee from the Canadian Home Builders' Association.
Welcome, Kevin.