We will call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 35 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance.
Pursuant to the committee's motion adopted on Friday, February 5 of this year, the committee is meeting to study all aspects of COVID-19 spending, programs and related monetary policy.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House order of January 25. Therefore, members are attending in person in the room and remotely using the Zoom application.
The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website, and people should realize that the entirety of the committee is not visible at all times, just the person speaking.
I ask participants to refrain from taking screenshots of their screens. That's against parliamentary rules as well.
Just before I go to the witnesses.... Committee members, I had hoped that on Thursday we'd be able to do committee business as well as the panels, but we're going to get disrupted by votes now, so those meetings will have to be fairly tight. What I'm suggesting is that we do a steering committee meeting on Monday evening. I believe that time is still available.
On the 27th—just to remind folks—we'll have the Governor of the Bank of Canada for one hour and the Parliamentary Budget Officer for one hour. Usually we have them for an hour and a half, but due to Zoom time restrictions, we can't get our regular three hours. We're going to have to go back to two.
That's the situation at the moment. Are there any complaints about that suggestion?
Okay, we will turn to the witnesses.
Witnesses, please hold your remarks to about five minutes.
We'll start with the Nicole Brayiannis, national deputy chair, Canadian Federation of Students.
Welcome, Nicole. The floor is yours.