I call the meeting to order.
Welcome back to meeting number 98 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, which has been suspended since Thursday, February 1, 2024.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, the committee is meeting to study the role of McKinsey & Company in the creation and the beginnings of the Canada Infrastructure Bank, or CIB.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. Members are participating in person, in the room, and remotely using the Zoom application.
Although this room, colleagues, is equipped with a powerful audio system, feedback events can occur. These can be extremely harmful to interpreters and cause serious injury. The most common cause of sound feedback is an earpiece worn too closely to a microphone. Therefore, we 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 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, we will now resume debate on the motion moved by Dr. Leslyn Lewis, which has been distributed to all members, both physically in the room as well as by email.
We left off in the discussion on the amendment proposed by Mr. Badawey to Dr. Lewis's motion.
We start the debate off with Mr. Bittle.