As many guests as we may have, there's no other that we're more pleased to see here than the Auditor General of Canada, Mr. Ferguson. He is with us to present the 2016 spring reports of the Auditor General of Canada. The Auditor General is accompanied by Jerome Berthelette, assistant auditor general, as well as Richard Domingue, principal, and Nicholas Swales, principal.
We know the Auditor General will brief us on a number of areas: report 1, the venture capital action plan; report 2, detecting and preventing fraud in the citizenship program, report 3, the Governor in Council appointment process in administrative tribunals; report 4, drug benefits—Veterans Affairs Canada, and report 5, Canadian Army Reserve—National Defence. As well, the Auditor General includes two special examinations of crown corporations, one for PPP Canada Inc. and one for VIA Rail Canada Inc.
Now I will ask Mr. Ferguson, our Auditor General of Canada, to proceed with his comments.