Welcome to meeting number 17 of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
Today we're going to have a bit of a shortened session because we have to get back to the House. We're going to try to wrap it up by five o'clock. We have 15 minutes at the end to talk about a couple of things in camera.
Our witnesses today are, from the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, Mathew Wilson, senior vice-president, and Martin Lavoie, director, policy, innovation and productivity; and from the Canadian Labour Congress, Chris Roberts, national director, social and economic policy.
We were supposed to have Manufacturiers et Exportateurs du Québec; however, they're not coming now.
We're going to get right into it. Let's try to keep it to about eight minutes each.
Who do we have going first?
Mr. Roberts, take it away. The show is all yours.