Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It's great to have you all here today on this nice, snowy day in Ottawa.
I welcome our witnesses. Mr. Ian Smith is with the Air Canada Pilots Association. We also have John McKenna, Les Aalders, and Wayne Gouveia.
Unfortunately, it looks as though we're going into votes. From talking to the parliamentary secretary and the critic from the NDP, I sense that I have the cooperation of the committee, so we are going to entertain you, witnesses. Unfortunately, we will not have time to go through questions, so you're going to get off the hook on that.
Then, committee members, as we leave for votes, let's get our votes done and then be back here as soon as possible, and we'll go to our second round so that we can hear the witnesses who have come in from the tourism association and the Vancouver Airport Authority. Hopefully, then we'll have some time left to actually quiz those witnesses.
Without wasting any more time, I will turn the floor over to Mr. Ian Smith.
You'll have 10 minutes to do your presentation.