I'd like everybody's attention. We just had an excellent first panel. I'm sure we'll have the same with our second panel.
Witnesses, you're here for our pre-budget consultations in advance of the 2024 budget. We thank you for joining us. We are delighted to be here in Quebec City as we do a tour right across Canada. We've done the Atlantic provinces, and now we are starting in Quebec and moving across Canada until we get to our most western province, British Columbia.
With us today we have, from the Aluminium Association of Canada, the president and chief executive officer, Jean Simard, and from the Association des professionnels de la construction et de l’habitation du Québec, the vice-president of development, public affairs and strategic innovation, Isabelle Demers, and the director of the economic department, Paul Cardinal.
From Equiterre we have the director of government relations, Marc-André Viau, and from the organization Amélie et Frédérick, Service d'entraide, we have Véronique Beaulieu and Louis-Philippe Delisle.
We also have, from the Union des municipalités du Québec, the senior vice-president and mayor of Mascouche, Guillaume Tremblay. Welcome, Your Worship. The strategic policy adviser, Samuel Roy, is with us as well.
With that, we're going to get going because we have limited time. We want to get as much time in for members and witnesses as we can.
We'll start with the Aluminium Association of Canada for five minutes.