Good morning, everyone.
We should get right into the committee meeting. We have a real time issue to deal with this morning because we have two witnesses. We have an hour to deal with the witnesses and with Mr. Julian's motion. We were considering extending it until 11:30, but in fact most of the members just can't stay, so we really have to try to get this finished by 11 or very shortly after.
We're going to have to have short presentations and get right to questioning. We may only get one round of questioning. Hopefully everyone's carefully considered their discussion on Mr. Julian's motion so that can be done briefly and concisely and we'll get to the vote.
If that's agreed, that's the way we'll proceed. We'll go straight to the witnesses. By the way, this is meeting number 41 of the Standing Committee on International Trade. We are dealing with Mr. Julian's motion on the clothing and textile industry.
We have as witnesses today, from the Syndicat Conseil du Québec, Lina Aristeo, director; and from the Canadian Apparel Federation, Elliot Lifson, president, and Bob Kirke, executive director.
We'll go right to presentations starting with Ms. Aristeo.