I call this meeting to order. This is the 32nd meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance. Our orders of the day, pursuant to Standing Order 81(5), are the supplementary estimates (B) 2011-2012, votes 1b and 5b under Canada Revenue Agency, and votes 1b, 5b, and L15b under Finance, referred to this committee on Thursday, November 3, 2011.
Colleagues, we have officials from the Canada Revenue Agency for the first hour and from the Department of Finance for the second hour. We have with us two officials from CRA, Mr. Filipe Dinis, chief financial officer and assistant commissioner of the finance and administration branch; and Mr. Richard Case, director general, resource management directorate, finance and administration branch.
Welcome, gentlemen, to the committee. At this time I will give you time for an opening statement, and then we'll have questions from members.
Mr. Dinis.