I call this meeting to order. This is meeting 97 of the Standing Committee on Finance. Our orders of the day, pursuant to Standing Order 81(5) supplementary estimates (B), 2012-13, votes 5b and 25b under finance, referred to the committee on Thursday, November 8, 2012.
We have a number of officials here from the Department of Finance. We are starting about a half hour late, and we appreciate the patience of the officials today. We had a vote in the House. So I'm recommending we go to 5 p.m. If we have further questions, we can decide what to do at that time.
I understand, Ms. Harrison, that you have an opening statement on behalf of all the officials. I'll ask you to do the opening statement, Sherry Harrison, assistant deputy minister, corporate services branch.
After that, we'll have questions from the members.