Good morning, everybody.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by this committee on Monday, June 13, 2016, the committee is resuming its study of poverty reduction strategies.
I'm very pleased to welcome a full slate of witnesses this morning.
As an individual, Gavin Still, CPA and CGA at MNP LLP from Fort St. John, British Columbia, via video conference. Thank you for being here.
From the Canadian Association of Social Workers, we have Sally Guy, director of policy and strategy. Welcome. I understand Fred is now here with you? Excellent.
From the Canadian Home Builders' Association, we have the chief executive officer, Kevin Lee. From Food Banks Canada, the director of policy and research, Shawn Pegg is with us. From the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Munk senior fellow, Sean Speer is here with us today. Finally, from Reena, the head of stakeholder relations, Gary Gladstone is with us this morning. Welcome, everyone.
We do have a very full committee today, so we're going to keep our comments as close to seven minutes as possible. If you can see this microphone light go on, it means that your time is either very close to being up or you're already past time. If I have to start waving you down, I will, but I will try to respect the time you require to finish your comments as much as we possibly can. As I said, we do have a lot to get through today.
We are going to get started right away and we're going to start with Mr. Gavin Still, via video conference from Fort St. John, British Columbia.
Welcome, sir. The next seven minutes are yours.