Good morning, colleagues. We have a very important meeting ahead of us today. Pursuant to Standing Order 81(4), we have the main estimates, vote 1 and so on, that we have to get through.
For those of you who are new to this, it is a parliamentary procedure that we must do in order to approve funding for various departments and agencies, and this committee is responsible for the various commissioners and their offices.
We're very glad to have with us this morning Mr. Therrien, the Privacy Commissioner, who is here again, for I think the third time since this committee resumed after the last election.
Commissioner, I'll get you to introduce Mr. Nadeau and Ms. Kosseim as we go on.
Colleagues, at some point today we might have to take some time for committee business. What I would suggest is that we do about 50 minutes with each commissioner, if that's okay, and leave about 15 or 20 minutes at the end in order to deal with committee business.
If we do 50 minutes with each commissioner, that should work, as long as the other commissioner comes 10 minutes early. We can let Ms. Dawson know that.
We'll turn it over to you, Commissioner. Give us your opening remarks on the estimates and let us know what's going on. Then we'll move to questions. Thank you, and welcome.