I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 35 of the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology.
I hope you had a good weekend at home. We begin today by welcoming the last two panels of witnesses assigned to our study.
We are going to go to the final two hours of panels for the emergency study that we've undertaken in relation to changes to section 232 tariffs.
Colleagues, I've just spoken to the representatives of each party. I'm going to take a couple of minutes to go in camera for committee business at the very end of the meeting to give a bit of an overview about where we're heading in the next couple of weeks. We have this study, our AI study and our EV study all nearing their end and requiring some direction from us to the analysts and to the clerk. That's just a quick note about that.
I can confirm that all audio and video have been tested.
We have three witnesses who are here with us today. Two are joining us virtually.
From EMC Canada, we are joined by the manager for southwestern Ontario, Jason Bates. From the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, we are joined by Vincent Caron, vice-president of policy. Here in the room, from Preferred CNC Inc., we have Marc Lecours, who is the president.
Witnesses, you will have up to five minutes for your introductory remarks. Once everyone has completed their remarks, we will begin a question and answer period from colleagues belonging to the recognized political parties.
This is Monday. I took that 6 a.m. flight again with Madam Dancho, so we should both be given a bit of grace this morning, in a non-partisan way.