I call the meeting to order.
I extend to everyone here a very warm welcome.
Colleagues, this meeting is to deal with the spring 2010 report of the Auditor General of Canada. Five chapters were tabled on Tuesday of this week, and there is one chapter dealing with special examinations.
As has been our practice in the past, we have the Auditor General before us to deal with all five chapters--all six chapters, actually, if you want to. She is accompanied by Sylvain Ricard, assistant auditor general; Nancy Cheng, assistant auditor general; and Ronnie Campbell, assistant auditor general. On behalf of the committee, I want to extend to each of you a warm welcome.
Before I ask the Auditor General for her opening remarks, I want to deal with a minor point of business. You have before you, colleagues, the minutes of the steering committee meeting that was held yesterday. I'd like to get those minutes approved, if possible.
However, before we do so, the clerk has recommended an amendment on chapter 2, which is that after the word “That”, we're going to insert the words “in relation to the committee's study of Chapter 3: Income Tax Legislation of the Fall 2009 Report of the Auditor General, the chair be authorized”--and then I'm continuing--“to write to the government requesting an update”--