Thank you, Mr. Meredith.
I want to thank all of our witnesses for taking the time to come today. As was mentioned, there was a request for some of those answers in writing. Thanks again for being here. I'm sure we'll see you again.
Committee members, we have to move into the actual motions on the estimates. I want to read something here out of chapter 18 under “Financial Procedures”. It says:
A committee may not increase the amount of a Vote, change the destination of a grant or change the destination or purpose of a subsidy, as this would exceed the terms of the royal recommendation and infringe on the financial initiative of the Crown. A committee may move to reduce a Vote by an amount equal to that set aside in the Estimates for a program or activity to which the committee is opposed. Members cannot propose a motion to reduce a Vote by its full amount; the procedure is simply to vote against the question, “Shall the vote carry?”
Now we'll move into our motions.