Welcome. We'll get started as we wait for the chair to arrive.
I welcome you to meeting number 31 of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. In today's orders of the day, we're discussing supplementary estimates (C) for the year 2011-12, vote 1c under the Privy Council, referred to this committee last Tuesday, February 28.
Our witnesses today are: Ms. Michelle Doucet, assistant deputy minister of corporate services; Marc Bélisle, executive director, finance and corporate planning division; and Joe Wild, assistant secretary to the cabinet, machinery of government.
Michelle, I think you have an opening statement. The floor is yours.