Good morning.
This is our first panel here in Calgary, so I want to welcome the panellists. Most of you have experience in making presentations, so we're going to go with a five-minute period to allow you to present your briefs and then we're going to go to the members.
Some of the members, as you can tell, are not present. We had some problems yesterday in terms of some members not coming in because of a budget bill being debated in the House. It's supposed to come out of the House today, so some of the members had to stay behind because of that.
All of your testimony is going to be on the record, so if members want to go back and review it, they can. Other members can also review it. There's a research staff here, so everything you say will and can be held against you in committee work!
We're going to start with the people I have here. Pursuant to Standing Order 83(1) on pre-budget consultations, I'm going to start with the Calgary Chamber of Voluntary Organizations, Ms. van Kooy, for five minutes.
Thank you.