This meeting is called to order.
Welcome to meeting number 100 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, the committee is meeting to study high frequency rail projects.
Today's meeting is taking place in hybrid format, pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. The members may attend in person in the room or remotely using the Zoom application.
Colleagues, although this room is equipped with a very powerful audio system, feedback events can occur. These can be extremely harmful to interpreters and can cause serious injuries. The most common cause of sound feedback is an earpiece worn too close to a microphone. We are therefore asking all participants to exercise a high degree of caution when handling the earpieces, especially when your microphone or your neighbour's microphone is turned on.
In order to prevent incidents and safeguard the hearing health of our interpreters, I invite participants to ensure that they speak into the microphone into which their headset is plugged and to avoid manipulating the earbuds by placing them on the table away from the microphone when they are not in use.
Members of the committee, appearing before us today as witness for the first part, from 11 to noon, we have Mr. Friedemann Brockmeyer from Civity Management Consultants joining us from Germany.
Wie geht es dir? Welcome, and thank you for joining us today.
We also welcome by videoconference Mr. Steeve Lavoie, president and CEO of the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Québec, or CCIQ, which is Quebec City's chamber of commerce and industry.
Welcome, Mr. Lavoie. We will begin with opening remarks. You have the floor for five minutes.