Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates meeting number 47. We are assembled today to continue our study on the Standards Council of Canada.
We can welcome today two witnesses, one by video conference, and one present with us in the room.
First of all, by video conference, we have Mr. Jean Rousseau.
You are very welcome, Mr. Rousseau. We apologize for having you attend the committee last week when we were called away for votes in the House of Commons and were unable to accept your testimony. Thank you very much for making the time to be with us here again today.
Also, we are joined by Mr. Graham Rae Dulmage, the director of the standards department, government relations, of the Underwriters Laboratories of Canada, who will make a submission in person to us today.
We are going to proceed in the order that we have in our agenda. We will invite Mr. Dulmage to make a brief opening comment, and then we'll ask Mr. Rousseau and go to questions following both of the submissions.
Mr. Dulmage, you have the floor for opening remarks, please.