I now declare this 60th meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts in order.
Colleagues, I have no particular business to bring to you before we start, so unless someone else has an intervention, it is my intention to move directly to the public hearing at hand.
I see none, so we will move forward with the hearing, pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(g), chapter 3, “Tax-Based Expenditures”, of the spring 2015 report of the Auditor General of Canada. It was sent to us on April 28.
Mr. Ferguson, our Auditor General, is here with us today to kick things off.
To begin with your opening remarks I'll turn the floor over to you, Mr. Ferguson. You now have the floor, sir.