Colleagues, if I may, I'll convene the meeting. We're running a little late, which happens quite frequently on Wednesdays. Wednesdays always have a late-starting question period.
We have a witness with us in the first hour. Mr. Thomas Mueller, from the Canada Green Building Council, is appearing by video conference from Vancouver.
Before we start, colleagues, I have a couple of housekeeping notes. Number one, I anticipate bells to start ringing at about 5:15 p.m. for a 5:45 p.m. vote. Once the bells begin ringing, I will be adjourning the meeting. That should give us approximately an hour or slightly more for questions.
Second, colleagues, on the last piece of housekeeping, if you recall, at our last meeting we talked about getting a press release out and sending out a request to veterans who may want to appear before our committee to talk about the public procurement and hiring processes for veterans. I forgot to mention that we needed a date to have submissions sent in to our clerk, and the deadline we're suggesting would be April 18.
Do I have agreement from the committee to make April 18 the deadline so that we can put this into our news release? It states, “Requests to appear must be submitted to the committee no later than April 18. The committee will accommodate to the best of its abilities veterans who prefer to participate anonymously.”