I call the meeting to order.
Good afternoon, everyone. I'm pleased to have our commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, Julie Gelfand, and her team with us. We had four reports tabled in the House of Commons on Tuesday morning, and the commissioner is going to take about eight minutes to start to walk us through the four reports that were before the House. We'll then hear from departmental officials.
As I understand it, we're going to have the commissioner of the environment take five minutes on report 1 and then we'll move to the Department of the Environment for five minutes on report 3. Next, we'll have the Department of Fisheries and Oceans present five minutes on report 2. Finally, the Department of Health will have five minutes on report 1. That gives us about half an hour of presentations, with opening statements by the commissioner and departments. At that point, we'll then move into our rounds of questions. We're going to have about 90 minutes available. I want to save about 10 minutes at the end for some in camera committee business, so I will be watching the clock.
Essentially, we'll go through the regular rotation and get into discussions. The questions can be geared to the commissioner and her team or to any of the departmental officials. That's how the rest of the day will unfold.
One other comment I made was that a number of committee members were able to attend the confidential briefing on Tuesday morning, and there were some very good questions raised. If members feel that they had their questions addressed at that briefing, this is now a public session, so if you want to get any of those questions and answers on record, don't feel bad about asking the commissioner to repeat what you asked on Tuesday, because she's assured me that she's willing to repeat what she said.