Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Bonjour à tous. Welcome to the 17th meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
Today, we have witnesses before us. Mr. Richard Dicerni is the deputy minister. Welcome, Mr. Dicerni. We have Kelly Gillis, who is a chief financial officer, comptrollership and administration sector. Good afternoon.
Is Simon Kennedy going to be with us? That's in progress. That's very good.
At the industry committee there are always interesting things that happen. This is a new one for me. In the spirit of non-partisanship and esprit de corps, it looks as if the opposition is going to have all the questions in the first round.
We're going to turn to Mr. Thibault now for seven minutes.
I apologize. That was so shocking, I missed the opening remarks. Let me get control of myself.
Sorry, Mr. Dicerni. Go ahead, for ten minutes, please.