Good morning, everyone.
We're here today to continue our study of the benefits of developing the oil and gas industry of the energy sectors. We have four witnesses with us today. I'll introduce them in a minute. Two of them we're still trying to get online.
Before I do that, you probably have noticed that a budget has been put in front of you. We should approve this. It's the budget for this study that we've undertaken. We should have a look at that budget and hopefully approve it just at the end of the meeting. It should only take a couple of minutes.
With that, I will introduce the witnesses. We're very much looking forward to this meeting today.
We have with us, from the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, Brenda Kenny, president and chief executive officer.
Welcome to you. You probably think you're a part of our committee. You've been here quite often.
We also welcome, from The Conference Board of Canada, Michael Burt, director of industrial economic trends.
By video conference from Saint John, New Brunswick, we have Colleen Mitchell, president of the Atlantica Centre for Energy; and by video conference from Edmonton, Alberta, Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour.
We will go through the presentations in the order in which the witnesses are listed on the agenda today. I want to ask the witnesses to make sure they keep to the time, to the seven minutes we've allocated.
To members, I'm going to cut you off right at the time allocated, or very close to it, because we've found that things have been going overtime considerably. I'd really like to keep this on schedule so that we can get the maximum benefit from the meetings.
Brenda Kenny, president and chief executive officer of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, please go ahead.