Hello, everybody.
We're going to get going. We have a pretty full day today, and we have to suspend between the different panels because we have some video conferencing coming in on the second set of witnesses as well as the third.
First, I would like to welcome and thank all our panellists for attending today from far and wide. Today we have, from ACT Immigration and Business Consulting Ltd., Anthony Cochlan, who is a partner. From the Canadian Labour Congress we have Barbara Byers, secretary-treasurer, and Elizabeth Kwan, senior researcher; and from Whistler Chamber of Commerce, Val Litwin, chief executive officer. Thank you all for being here today.
Without any preamble we're going to get moving with the opening statements from each of you. Because we have the three panellists, could we limit it to seven minutes, please?
We're going to start with Anthony Cochlan, from ACT Immigration and Business Consulting Ltd., please.