Colleagues, Minister, and officials, I call this meeting to order.
This is meeting number 14. We are here to deal with the main estimates and the report on plans and priorities.
Before we introduce the minister and begin our proceedings, I will mention for the benefit of the committee members that we will need about 15 minutes before the expiry of this meeting to go over some committee business, most of which we weren't able to discuss in the last meeting.
I will be adjourning the formal proceedings of this meeting and going in camera at approximately 5:15, so we will have a bit of a truncated meeting today. We will have just slightly less than an hour and a half for all the questions you have.
With that, I would like to welcome Minister Foote before our committee, once again.
Minister, would you care to introduce the officials that you have with you? Then I will ask Mr. Parker from Shared Services Canada to do the same, and we will begin with your opening statement.