Good morning, I want to welcome everybody and let you know that we're going to have four witnesses today. We have a full slate to answer questions.
There were a lot of members who asked me if we could put everybody together rather than have two separate panels. It would give us a little bit more time for questions and make it more pertinent, and so we've done that. I want to thank the departments and the commissioner for respecting that wish. It's very nice of you to do that, and I think it will make it a better meeting.
I'm going to introduce everyone here with us today. We have a very large contingent, so hold on.
We have, from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, Julie Gelfand, the commissioner of environment and sustainable development. We also have Kimberley Leach, Andrew Ferguson, and Frank Barrett, some of whom we have seen before.
From the Department of the Environment, we Diane Campbell, director general of the meteorological service of Canada; and Eric Gagné, director general of the science and technology branch.
We have, from the National Research Council of Canada, Philip Rizcallah, the director of building regulations.
From Infrastructure Canada, we have Marc Fortin, assistant deputy minister; Bogdan Makuc, director of program operations and program integration; and Sonya Read, director of strategic policy and priorities initiatives, environmental initiatives.
From the Department of Health we have Hilary Geller, assistant deputy minister, healthy environments and consumer safety branch; and James Van Loon, acting director general, and Christine Norman, director, healthy environments and consumer safety branch.
We have, from the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Lori MacDonald, assistant deputy minister.
We have a full house of support here to answer all our questions.
Our procedure for those who haven't joined us before—I know Ms. Gelfand is very familiar with this—is that I will tell you when one minute is left, just to give you a chance to know where you're at.
We'll open the floor to Ms. Gelfand. Thank you.