Welcome, everyone.
I would like to welcome everyone to our—
Mr. Deschênes, you may take your seat.
second panel. Thank you for being here.
I want to, as always, make a few comments for the benefit of our new witnesses.
We don't have anyone online. I'm glad that everybody's here in person.
Please put on your headsets and try to do it in advance. It makes it easier to hear.
Address all your questions through the chair, please.
Of course, you can click on the microphone icon to activate your mic. Please make sure that you select whether you want to listen in French or in English. You can also adjust how loud you would like it to be.
As you saw earlier, I'll let everybody know when there's about a minute left.
With that, I'm going to now formally welcome our witnesses for the second panel.
We have, as an individual, Mr. James Yousif, who is a lawyer.
From the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, we have Mr. David Pierce, vice-president, government relations.
From the Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne du Canada, we have Ms. Liane Roy, president, and Mr. Alain Dupuis, executive director.
Each group will have five minutes to speak.
We're going to begin with Mr. Yousif for five minutes, please.