I'm hoping that all my colleagues will behave themselves today, even though we are being televised, which I know everyone's aware of.
I will now call vote 1 in order to begin a review of the main estimates. We have the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development with us, as well as the Minister of Labour.
Gentlemen, I want to welcome you and thank you for being here today and taking the time out of your busy schedules.
You will make some statements, and that will be followed by a question and answer session from the members.
I know that some of my Liberal colleagues were suggesting that we could go right to questions because they had the report already, but I thought we would still give you a chance to go ahead with your statement.