Order. Good morning. Welcome to our subcommittee meeting. We've been commissioned to study the crisis faced by certain industrial sectors in Canada, such as aerospace, energy, forestry, high tech, and manufacturing.
Today we are very privileged to have with us the high-tech sector. From BIOTECanada, we have Peter Brenders and Rainer Engelhardt. From the Information Technology Association of Canada, we have Bernard Courtois, Terry Ansari, and Hicham Adra. It's very good to have you with us. We thank you.
You will be starting with some opening statements, I presume. One of you will make those. After that we will begin our rounds. We've become quite lax in our times. I try to stay very fair, but the opening round is ten minutes. If it gets a little bit longer than that, you might see me waving at you or something just to ask you to wrap it up. If you do have something that you feel that is very necessary for us to hear, by all means indicate that, and we'll certainly accommodate you.
Again, welcome.
Mr. Brenders, are you going to speak first?