Welcome, everyone.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are having the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science, and Technology. Further to Standing Order 108(2), we're continuing our study of the challenges facing the Canadian manufacturing sector. With us here today are four representatives of unions from right across Canada.
We have, first of all, from UNITE HERE Canada, Lina Aristeo, Quebec regional director. Welcome.
Secondly, from the Centrale des syndicats du Québec, we have François Vaudreuil, president. Bonjour.
From the United Steelworkers, we have Jorge Garcia-Orgales, researcher. Welcome.
Fourthly, from the Canadian Labour Congress, we have the president, Ken Georgetti, with us.
Welcome to all of you. Thank you for being with us today.
We do have time for each of you to have your opening statements of ten minutes each--you can go up to ten minutes. You can take as little time as you like, but we would hope you'd be as brief as possible so we allow as much time as we can for questions from the members. We'll start in the order that I read out.
Ms. Aristeo, if you want to start off, you have up to ten minutes.