I'd like to call the meeting to order.
This is still the 43rd meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance. We have our third panel with us here this afternoon. We have two panels continuing our discussion in pre-budget consultations across Canada.
We want to thank all of the witnesses for coming before us. We're sorry that we're a few minutes late, but we had a tour of the port of Vancouver at lunchtime.
We have here with us eight groups for this panel, so we have a large number of groups. First of all, we have the Canadian Federation of Students, British Columbia; the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia; and we have as an individual, Mr. Graham Mowatt. We also have the Downtown Surrey Business Improvement Association; the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada; the Federation of Community Action Programs for Children of British Columbia Association; the Rick Hansen Foundation; and finally, we have the Human Early Learning Partnership here with us.
Welcome to all of you.
We'll have presentations to start with and we'll go in the order outlined above. We'll have presentations of up to five minutes maximum and then we'll go to questions from members.
Will the Canadian Federation of Students start please?