Good afternoon, everyone.
We're here today for a two-part meeting. The first part of the meeting will deal with witnesses from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, and the second part will deal with witnesses in the continuation of our study on innovation in the energy sector.
For the first part of the meeting we have witnesses, as I said, from the Office of the Auditor General of Canada. Scott Vaughan is Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development. Welcome to you, Commissioner. We also have Kimberley Leach, principal, sustainable development strategies, audits, and studies; Bruce Sloan, principal, sustainable development strategies, audits, and studies; and Andrew Ferguson, principal, sustainable development strategies, audits, and studies. Welcome to you all.
We will carry out the questioning as usual. We'll start with a presentation from the commissioner. I just want to make sure that all members of the committee know that we're going to adhere strictly to the times that each member gets for questioning. So if you ask a bunch of questions when you're a minute from the end of your time, the witnesses will have one minute to answer that bunch of questions and I will adhere to that.
To the commissioner and others, as we get to the end of the member's time, you may be asked to give a very succinct answer. Hopefully that won't be the case, but it could be.
Let's get on with the business we're here to deal with in the first half.
Over to you, Commissioner, for your opening statement.