Order. Thank you for being here today.
Today we're dealing with the main estimates, and we have the minister and his officials here.
Before we begin, the chair would like to remind committee members that things may occur that might change some of our order of business, but it is the intention to continue with the order of business. The minister will be here for approximately an hour, and then the officials afterwards.
We have two things that we have to do. We have some time reserved for committee business at the end of the meeting. We've reserved about 10 minutes, and near the end of this meeting we will need about 10 minutes for the adoption of the estimates.
With that in mind, Minister, you have the usual seven minutes or so to make your statement.
Thank you very much for being here with your officials.