Members and witnesses, let's find our seats, please.
This is the 26th meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. We are here today continuing our study and review of science and technology in Canada.
We have four witnesses before us today from two organizations.
First, from the National Research Council of Canada, we have the president, Pierre Coulombe. Welcome.
We have three representatives from the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, the vice-president, Mr. Gary Corbett; the section head of research, Denise Doherty-Delorme; and the research officer, Mr. Chris Roberts.
We generally allow up to five minutes for an opening statement, but because we have two groups I'll be a little lax on that. We'll start with the NRC, then we'll go to the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada.
Mr. Coulombe, you may begin at any time.