I open the meeting of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development of Tuesday, February 6, 2007.
Committee members, you have the orders of the day in front of you. For the first hour, we'll have a report on aboriginal housing. Witnesses are from Statistics Canada. Then at 12 noon, we will be going in camera and finalizing the post-secondary education study and also reviewing some committee business.
The first order of the day is that today we have witnesses from Statistics Canada. We have Rosemary Bender, the director general of social and demographic statistics, and Marie Patry, assistant director, aboriginal data, social and aboriginal statistics division.
Welcome. I understand you are going to give us a presentation, so please begin. Thank you.