Good afternoon, colleagues.
This is meeting number 106 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Tuesday, June 19, 2018.
We are here this afternoon in consideration of the message of the Auditor General in his 2018 spring reports. I would again remind each one of us that we are televised today.
We are honoured once again to have with us this afternoon Mr. Michael Ferguson, the Auditor General of Canada.
Colleagues, before we proceed with what may be our last meeting before the summer recess, I would like to take this opportunity to thank our Auditor General for his many appearances before the committee during the last six months of this year, and last fall.
Your reports and the many recommendations you've made in them go a very long way to improving many aspects of the federal government's programs and policies. We all very much appreciate your good work and willingness to work with this committee.
I would also like to thank our clerk and our two analysts for the tremendous job they have done in keeping us on track, providing sage advice, and producing quality reports that we can all be proud of.
Now, Mr. Ferguson, we turn to you for some introductory remarks, if you have some. We look forward to them. We will then go into our regular rounds of questioning.