Good morning, everyone.
I now call this meeting to order. Welcome to meeting number 39 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House order of January 25. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Just so that you are aware, the webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entire committee.
To the members of INDU, please note I'll take a few minutes at the end of the meeting to go over the schedule for the remainder of the session.
To ensure an orderly meeting, I'd like to outline a few rules to follows.
Members and witnesses may speak in the official language of their choice. Interpretation services are available for this meeting. You have the choice at the bottom of your screen of either the floor, English or French. Please select your preference now. All comments by members and witnesses should be addressed through the chair. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name, and when you are not speaking, please make sure your microphone is on mute. As is my normal practice, I will hold up a yellow card when you have 30 seconds left in your intervention, and I will hold up a red card when your time for questions has expired. Please keep your screen and gallery view so that you can see the cards when I hold them up.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on November 5, 2020, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology is meeting today to continue its study on the economic recovery from COVID-19.
I would like to now welcome our witnesses.
Today, we are hearing from Vincent Rousson, rector of the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Geneviève Aubry, director of Collectif Territoire, as well as Denis Leclerc, president and chief executive officer of Écotech Québec.
Mr. John Galt, president and chief executive officer of Husky Injection Molding Systems; and Mr. Mark Mills, senior fellow of Manhattan Institute.
Each witness will present for up to five minutes, followed by rounds of questions.
With that, we will start our first round of six minutes each. The first round will go to MP Baldinelli.