I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 104 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 a hybrid format, pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. The members are attending in person in the room and remotely using the Zoom application.
Although this room is equipped with a sophisticated audio system, feedback events can occur. These can be extremely harmful to our interpreters and cause serious injury. The most common cause of sound feedback is an earpiece that is worn too close to a microphone. We therefore ask 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 all 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.
Colleagues, before we begin today and I introduce you all to our witnesses, I would just like to take a moment to once again put forward the budget that was tentatively approved at our previous meeting. I'd like to put that forward for consideration. All of you have received a copy.
I'd like to ask for unanimous consent to adopt the revised budget.