Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to meeting 24 of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.
Today is May 15, 2014, and for the next hour we'll be finalizing our committee's review of the main estimates.
To that end, we're very pleased to be joined today by the Honourable Kellie Leitch for her first appearance before the committee as Minister of Labour.
Welcome, Minister.
Joining the minister we have Ms. Hélène Gosselin, the deputy minister of labour; Mr. Kin Choi, the assistant deputy minister of compliance, operations, and program development from the labour program at ESDC; Mr. Anthony Giles, assistant deputy minister of dispute resolution and international affairs from the labour program; and finally, Mr. Alain Séguin, the chief financial officer.