I now declare this 37th meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts in order.
Colleagues, before we turn our minds to the public accounts, which we're here to deal with, I want to bring you up to speed on a little bit of business.
You might recall that the clerk and I were given certain parameters for scheduling going forward for the next few weeks. I can advise you that it is coming together. It looks like we'll be able to get a fair bit done of what we had hoped to do by the end of this sitting.
The way it is right now, next week there will be two meetings of report writing. That gives us a chance to catch our breath and then go into the last sprint. We have a couple of public hearings that we'll try to get in before we rise at the end of the year.
So for next week, for planning purposes, you'll get copies of the draft report, and perhaps you could be ready to start going through that. That will be our business next week.
The only other thing I want to mention is that one of our presenters today, Mr. Matthews, had asked if instead of using his time for his opening remarks he could do a bit of a presentation. I thought that was an excellent idea. I've given him the okay. We will append his opening remarks so that they're still there as part of the record, and can be drawn upon when we're doing our draft report. But I think it will help if we do a bit of a briefing session, particularly since this is public. It gives the public an opportunity to understand more of what we're doing. Of course, today is public accounts day—the name of the committee—so it's important business.
Today, representing the Auditor General, we have Assistant Auditor General Nancy Cheng.
Nancy, welcome. It's good to have you here again. I'll call upon you in a moment to give us your opening remarks and introduce your delegation.
Mr. Matthews, you've returned again. It's good to have you back. I'll look to you shortly for your presentation and the recognition of your delegation.
Mr. Leswick, from you, the general director of economic and fiscal policy at the Department of Finance, we have no opening remarks, but apparently you're making yourself available to answer any questions that might come up during our discussions.
Colleagues, that's the lineup. We're ready to go. Unless somebody has an intervention at the last minute, we'll get going.
Seeing none, you now have the floor, ma'am.