Colleagues, I'd like to call the meeting to order and at this time ask that the cameras leave. Thank you very much.
Welcome, everyone. Welcome, witnesses. Welcome, members. Welcome, members of the public.
The matter today is chapter 11 of the November 2006 report of the Auditor General, “Protection of Public Assets—Office of the Correctional Investigator”, a report of the Auditor General of Canada.
We're very pleased to have with us today the Auditor General, Sheila Fraser. She's accompanied by Jean Ste-Marie, assistant Auditor General and legal advisor. As an individual, we have Mr. Ron Stewart, accompanied by his solicitor, Peter Doody. From the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness we have Suzanne Hurtubise, the deputy minister. From the present Office of the Correctional Investigator, we have Mr. Howard Sapers. From the Treasury Board, we have Charles-Antoine St-Jean, the Comptroller General of Canada. From the Privy Council Office, we have Mr. Marc O'Sullivan, the assistant secretary to the cabinet, senior personnel and special projects secretariat.
I want to welcome each and every one of you.
I understand that several of you have opening statements. I would urge you to keep them as short as possible.
Members, we're going to conclude this portion of the meeting at 5:15. Then we're going to go to motions that we had before this meeting, the first one at 5:15.
Without any further ado, I'm going to call upon you, Mrs. Fraser, for your opening comments.