Welcome to the 28th meeting of the Standing Committee on Official Languages on this Thursday, March 1, 2012.
Before beginning today, I just want to draw to the attention of members of the committee that we have received the main estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013. Our estimates are not particularly large, but they are for an amount of $22 million. They're going to be deemed automatically reported to the House by May 31. So if members of the committee wish to review these estimates—they pertain to the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, the Chief Electoral Officer, the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board, and the Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat, as well as the Privy Council—I'd be more than happy to organize a meeting, to call witnesses so they can explain these estimates, and we can vote on them.
We are here today pursuant to Standing Order 108 to pursue our study on the evaluation of the Roadmap: improving programs and service delivery. Three groups of witnesses will be appearing before us today.
First we have Mr. Johnson and Mr. McGovern from the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development. Welcome.
Then we have Ms. Cantin, from the Canada School of Public Service.
Welcome.
Also here are Mr. MacLeod and Mr. Tremblay of the Treasury Board Secretariat.
We'll begin with the representative of the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development.