Good morning. Pursuant to the order of reference of Wednesday, February 27, 2019 and the motion adopted by the committee on Thursday, February 28, 2019, the committee is resuming its study of precarious employment in Canada. We are joined by a number of great witnesses today, and I'll introduce them now.
First of all, from Basic Income Canada Network we have Sheila Regehr, chairperson.
Coming to us via video conference from Vancouver, we have Parisa Mahboubi, senior policy analyst, Toronto Office, C.D. Howe Institute.
From the Canadian Chamber of Commerce we have Leah Nord, director, skills and immigration policy.
From the Canadian Labour Congress we have Chris Roberts, national director, social and economic policy department.
Also joining us via video conference from Montreal, from the Institute for Research on Public Policy we have Colin Busby, research director.
Welcome, all.
We will get started with opening statements.
To start us off, from Basic Income Canada Network, Sheila Regehr. The next seven minutes are all yours.