Thank you very much for being here, Minister. Thank you for the measures in budget 2025.
In the context of our productivity study, and in the context of the defence industrial strategy, witness after witness after witness talked about the importance of the regional tariff response initiative. They talked about improving the SR and ED program. They talked about the value of the productivity superdeduction.
Minister, I'm wondering if you want to talk about the pieces in budget 2025 that are really critical to pass as quickly as possible to give businesses confidence that these measures are in place for them, particularly as they pertain to agribusiness, manufacturing, trades training and retraining.
I will hand it over to you to talk about how urgent it is to pass the budget, so that businesses can have access to these critical supports.