I'd like to call the meeting to order and welcome everyone here. Bienvenue à tous.
Today the agenda is pursuant to Standing Order 108. We are talking about chapter 1, “Expenditure Management System at the Government Centre” of the November 2006 Report of the Auditor General of Canada; and chapter 2, “Expenditure Management System in Departments” of the November 2006 Report of the Auditor General of Canada. This is very much related to some of the work we were doing on the relationship between our committee and Treasury Board Secretariat in the fall last year. Today's meeting and this Wednesday's meeting are allotted to this item.
We had a very helpful and useful briefing session at noon today. I want to thank your staff, Mrs. Fraser, and your staff, Mr. Wouters. It was simply an excellent presentation and we appreciated it very much.
We have with us today our Auditor General, Sheila Fraser, accompanied by Doug Timmins, the Assistant Auditor General; Tom Wileman, principal; and Richard Domingue, director. From the Treasury Board Secretariat we have Wayne Wouters, secretary; and David Moloney, senior assistant secretary, expenditure management sector. Mr. Moloney, Mr. Timmins, Mr. Domingue, Mr. Wileman, and others were all here at noon for the excellent briefing.
I'm going to suspend this part of the meeting at approximately 5:15 to deal with Mr. Wrzesnewskyj's motion. I will allocate about 12 minutes for that, and we will adjourn by 5:30.
I call upon you, Mrs. Fraser, for your opening comments.