I'd like to bring the meeting to order.
I have one matter of committee business. As everyone knows, the budget will be introduced on Thursday. That would be the day of our meeting for the committee. Normally on that day we would deal with the study regarding apprenticeships, and we would also deal with that on Tuesday of the following week. In general discussion with all members, I think there is a consensus that we will cancel Thursday's committee meeting and instead meet on Tuesday only, from 12 o'clock to 1 o'clock, to deal with the report.
Unless I see any objection, that is what we'll instruct the clerk to do.
Seeing no objection, that is what we will then do.
We will now move to our study today. We certainly welcome all of our witnesses who were able to make it through the snow. Tomorrow is spring, but today we're not so sure.
We have with us Maureen Haan and Elizabeth Smith from the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work.
We have Johanne Curodeau, vice-president, board of directors, from Association pour l'intégration sociale d'Ottawa.
We have Deepak Soni from Corbrook.
We will hear from each of you. We'll start with Ms. Haan.