Could we come back together, please?
We have a brand new, fantastic panel to speak to us. We have a little committee business that we're going to have to squeeze in at the end. I know I'm being a taskmaster today, but I want to get through everything.
I would like to welcome from Canada's Building Trades Unions, Robert Blakey, Canadian operating officer, and Neil Cohen, executive director; and Sandra Guevara-Holguin, an advocate from the Community Unemployed Help Centre; and Hans Marotte and Laurell Ritchie from the Inter-Provincial EI Working Group.
Thank you all very much for coming here today.
We're going to keep the opening remarks to under seven minutes, please. We've got such a big group, we want to make sure we get to everybody.
We'll start with Mr. Blakely.