Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's good to be back.
My job as the assistant secretary of expenditure management at Treasury Board is to aggregate all of the different spending requests of the government and present them to the committee in the estimates documents. As the minister made clear today, we are presenting in the 2016-17 main estimates requirements totalling $250.1 billion, and this is broken out by our voted amounts of $89.85 billion and statutory requirements of $160.29 billion.
To help me explain these estimates requirements today, I'm joined at the table by Renée LaFontaine, our chief financial officer at Treasury Board. Renée will address any questions related to TBS-specific requirements. Also, there is my executive director of expenditure strategies and estimates division, Madam Marcia Santiago. Between Marcia and I, we will do our very best to address any questions you have about the rest of spending across the public service.