Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm delighted to be here this morning to assist the committee in its study of supplementary estimates (C) for 2012-13.
Given that the document was just tabled yesterday, there is a presentation, which we thought we would go through very quickly, to help focus committee members in getting ready for their study.
I will talk about government expenditures in general, and then I'll hand the floor over to the Chief Financial Officer of the Treasury Board Secretariat to speak to the secretariat's expenditures.
If that's agreeable, we will go through the slide presentation.
To begin, Mr. Chairman, given that there is a bit of a time crunch, I would like to start on slide 4. The first three slides simply give some background on what is in this deck and how the estimates are organized. I will move right to slide 4 and get started there.