Good afternoon, everyone. I want to welcome everyone to committee today. We're very excited that you can appear.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on Wednesday, August 12, 2009, a study of H1N1 preparedness and response, we welcome witnesses from the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and from the Treasury Board Secretariat.
Today we have seven-minute presentations. Each person can have 10 minutes to present. Following that, we will go into seven-minute rounds of questions and answers.
Committee, we have before us Daniel Lavoie, the associate assistant deputy minister at the emergency management and national security branch.
Welcome, sir.
We also have before us Serge Beaudoin, director general of the preparedness and recovery directorate.
Welcome.
In addition, from the Treasury Board Secretariat we have with us Daphne Meredith, chief human resources officer, and Hélène Laurendeau, assistant deputy minister of compensation and labour relations.
We'll start with Monsieur Lavoie.
Could you please give us your presentation, sir? Following that, we will go on to Daphne.