Our apologies, everybody. We had votes in the House. We're always housecleaning.
Welcome to the 21st meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
Today we have with us, from Futurpreneur Canada, Ms. Julia Deans, chief executive officer; from Startup Canada, Ms. Victoria Lennox, co-founder and chief executive officer; and finally, from Communitech, Ms. Avvey Peters, vice-president, external relations.
We're going to start. Normally we would have about 10 minutes per witness, but because we're a little behind, maybe you could keep it towards eight minutes. That would be great.
We're going to start with Ms. Deans.