I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 18 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates.
Today's meeting is taking place in using the new webinar format. Webinars are for public committee meetings and are available only to members, their staff and witnesses. Members may have remarked that the entry to the meeting was much quicker and that we are immediately entering into an active participation, bearing in mind that we've had a little bit of delay here in getting the witnesses. All functionalities for active participants remain the same. Staff will be non-active participants only and can therefore can only view the meeting in gallery view.
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Now, with that, we have one witness here.
Thank you, Ms. Bull, for being with us.
I'll invite her to have some opening remarks, and, hopefully, by the time she's done, we will have the second witness so we can proceed further.
Ms. Bull, you have five minutes, please.