I open this Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development of Tuesday, March 20, 2007.
Committee members, you have the orders of the day before you. The business of the day, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), is the supplementary estimates (B), 2006-07: votes 1b, 10b, 20b, 45b, 52b, and 54b, under Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
The witnesses before us today, committee members, are from the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs: Michael Wernick, deputy minister; Peter Harrison, senior associate deputy minister; Gina Wilson, assistant deputy minister, Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada; and Peter Traversy, acting chief financial officer.
Welcome to the witnesses, and thank you for your attendance. We'll begin with the presentation and then we'll go on to questions from the committee members.
Mr. Wernick, were you going to begin?