Good afternoon everybody, and welcome.
To our governmental officials, thank you for being here today. Apologies for the late start.
We're going to go with the departmental officials. We'll have the opening statement for up to 10 minutes, and then we'll get into our questioning.
We have an outside witness who is expecting to join us at 4:30 by telephone. That won't give us a lot of time, so we probably won't go the full hour with the departmental officials. We'll move into our second panel with our telephone witness probably at 20 to five or a quarter to five, somewhere in that range. It's all a bit abbreviated today, but that's the kind of day we're having here on the Hill.
Welcome to Monsieur Martel and Monsieur Robillard.
With that, who from the department is going to be making opening comments?