Good afternoon, colleagues.
This is meeting number 122 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts for Monday, December 3, 2018. We're here today in consideration of report 3, “Canada's Fighter Force—National Defence”, of the 2018 fall reports of the Auditor General of Canada.
I would just remind the committee, and those in our audience today, that we are televised, so I would encourage all of you to put your phones on silent or vibrate, so there are fewer distractions.
We're honoured to have with us, from the Office of the Auditor General, Mr. Jerome Berthelette, assistant auditor general of Canada and Ms. Casey Thomas, principal. From the Department of National Defence, we're pleased to have the deputy minister, Ms. Jody Thomas, as well as Patrick Finn, assistant deputy minister, materiel, and Lieutenant-General A. D. Meinzinger, commander, Royal Canadian Air Force.
We thank you for your attendance here today. We look forward to your testimony. We will now turn the time over to Mr. Berthelette.