Good afternoon.
I call this meeting back to order. Welcome to meeting number 27 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on Thursday, June 18, 2020, the committee is meeting on the subject of front-line grocery store workers.
Today's meeting is taking place by video conference, and the proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website.
I'd like to remind the members and the witnesses that, before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name. When you are ready to speak, please unmute your microphone and then return to mute when you are finished speaking. When speaking, please speak slowly and clearly so that the translators can do their work.
Please make sure that your interpretation is on the language in which you are speaking.
As is my normal practice, I will hold up a yellow card for when you have 30 seconds left in your intervention, and I will hold up the red card for when your time has expired.
I will now like to welcome our witnesses. From Teamsters Canada, we have Stéphane Lacroix, director of communications and public affairs in Quebec; from Unifor, we have Jerry Dias, national president, Carolyn Wrice, president Local 597, and Gord Currie, president Local 414; and from the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada, we have Paul Meinema, national president.
Each witness will have five minutes to present followed by the rounds of questions.
With that, we will start with Mr. Lacroix.
You have five minutes.