I'd like to welcome everyone to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities. The way today's meeting is going to work is that we have Professor Noël joining us.
I want to thank you for taking time out of your schedule to be here today to discuss some of the issues of poverty we've been talking about.
Sir, you'll have 10 to 15 minutes, and then we're going to open up to dialogue, with questions back and forth. Our first round will be seven minutes of questions, including the answers, and then we'll continue with five-minute rounds until about 12:30, if that's agreeable to you.
The second part of our meeting today is going to be in camera. We're going to discuss future business. Mr. Lessard has a motion that we'll want to figure out how to deal with as well. So we have some things to take care of between 12:30 and 1:30 today.
That's all the talking I'm going to do. I'm going to turn it over to you, sir, and you can give us your opening remarks. Then we'll get started on the questions and answers.
Thank you once again for being here. The floor is yours, sir.