I call this meeting to order.
Welcome, everybody, to meeting number 105 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance. Pursuant to Standing Order 83.1 and the motion adopted by the committee on Thursday, June 8, 2023, the committee is meeting to discuss the pre-budget consultations in advance of the 2024 budget.
The finance committee is honoured to be starting our cross-country tour and our pre-budget consultations in advance of the 2024 budget right here in Atlantic Canada. Yesterday we were in P.E.I., and today we are here in New Brunswick, in beautiful Fredericton. We're looking forward to hearing from our witnesses.
On our finance committee, we have members from right across Canada, but we do have a number of members with us today who are from Atlantic Canada. We have MP Atwin from right here in Fredericton, MP Thompson from Newfoundland and MP Stewart, who is also from New Brunswick.
For the other members, I'll allow you to introduce yourselves as we get into our questions. As I said, we're from right across Canada.
We thank you for putting your organizations and your names forward to be witnesses in this study. It is really helpful for our committee to hear your testimony and to provide some of the recommendations that we're looking to put into our report.
On that, as our witnesses who are with us today, we have, from Greener Village, the chief executive officer, Alex Boyd, and from the Municipality of Tantramar, Mayor Andrew Black. Welcome.
With that, Mr. Boyd, you can start with an opening statement, and then we'll hear an opening statement from Mr. Black.