Good afternoon, everybody. First, I'd like to apologize and welcome our witnesses to one of those very active days on Parliament Hill, with votes and various things happening. Wednesdays are big, but we appreciate your coming.
We have so many votes this afternoon, so I'll make a suggestion. I have already talked to some of my colleagues here. Standard procedure, of course, is that the witnesses will get five minutes. We also have Mr. Suzuki on deck in British Columbia, so we're also going to hear from him. We are going to be asked to go back to vote, so it's a little different from the normal procedure. We're not going to have an opportunity to have the dialogue going back and forth with the MPs, but we're just reassuring you that if you go over a minute, we're not going to be too worried about it. What's going to happen is that any MPs who have questions for the panels here today will forward them. We'll get them to you and we'll ask you to respond. On that point, I would hope that any questions that the MPs have would be presented to the clerk before noon Friday. Then we'll get the questions to you sometime next week, and then you can respond. That way, we'll enter them into the study.
If everybody is cool with that, without further ado, we're going to go right at it. I understand that the Business Council of Canada, Andrea, you have a flight to catch.