It's been moved by Mr. Lake that Michael Barrett be elected as the first vice-chair of the committee. Are there any further motions?
Seeing none, is it the pleasure of the committee to adopt the motion?
(Motion agreed to)
I declare Mr. Barrett duly elected first vice-chair of the committee. Congratulations, sir.
Now we'll move on to our witness and their opening remarks. To begin, both the Office of the Auditor General and the Public Health Agency of Canada have five minutes to make their opening statement before rounds of questions, which will occupy the remainder of our two hours.
With us today, we have from the Office of the Auditor General, Andrew Hayes, deputy Auditor General, and Jean Goulet, Carol McCalla and Chantal Richard, principals. From the Public Health Agency of Canada, we Brigitte Diogo, vice-president of the health security and regional operations branch; Cindy Evans, vice-president of the emergency management branch; and Christopher Allison, acting vice-president of corporate data and surveillance branch.
Thank you all for being with us here today. We're going to proceed in the order listed on the notice of meeting.
We're going to ask Deputy Auditor General Hayes to kick us off. You have the floor for five minutes.