I want to welcome all the witnesses here and thank you for coming before the committee on short notice. Just for the record, we are doing the pre-budget consultations for the 2020 budget. Also, just to inform you, for any of the organizations that submitted a brief prior to the August deadline, that submission is considered part of the record and the recommendations therein will be considered as well.
In this round we will have to keep things as tight as we can. Question period starts at two o'clock. The opposition has to find time to figure out how they're going to praise the government before they get to question period, so we need to tighten it up quite a bit.
With that we'll start with the first witness, Mr. Kobly of the Alberta Chambers of Commerce, who's coming from Edmonton, Alberta.
Welcome and thank you.