Good morning, colleagues. This is meeting number 138 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on Thursday, May 16, 2019.
I will remind committee members, as well as people in the audience and our guests, that we are televised today, so I would encourage you to put your cellphones on vibrate, mute or airplane mode or whatever settings you need to do. That way there will be fewer distractions.
I said that about three weeks ago and then it was my phone which rang, so I've made sure this time.
We are here today in consideration of “Report 5, Equipping Officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police”, of the 2019 spring reports of the Auditor General of Canada.
We're pleased to have with us again this morning, from the Office of the Auditor General, Monsieur Sylvain Ricard, Interim Auditor General of Canada, and Nicholas Swales, Principal.
From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, we welcome the commissioner, Brenda Lucki, and deputy commissioner, contract and indigenous policing, Brian Brennan.
We will open the meeting and give the floor to the Interim Auditor General, Monsieur Ricard.