Thank you, all, for coming today.
Our apologies for being late. We had votes in the House.
Welcome, everyone, to meeting number nine of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.
Today we have witnesses from the Department of Western Economic Diversification. Welcome, Daphne Meredith, deputy minister; and Cathy McLean, executive director, finance and corporate management.
We have from Canada Economic Development, Pierre-Marc Mongeau, acting deputy minister/president; and Marc Lemieux, chief financial officer, and acting vice-president of operations.
Finally, we have Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Denise Frenette, vice-president, finance and corporate services; as well as Janice Nishikawa, director general, enterprise development.
Welcome, everybody. Thank you for coming.
We're going to get right into it. As with other meetings we've had, we'll let everybody do their introductions and then we'll start on our line of questioning.
Ms. Meredith.