Good morning, committee.
We are back from being in camera where we worked on a draft report.
I'm very pleased to announce that we do have a consensus on a letter we will be sending to the Minister of Finance and copying the Treasury Board and others on. I want to thank the three parties—the government side with the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, and the New Democratic Party—for working together on this.
Mr. Christopherson, I want to thank you for your motion. You do have the floor, by the way, but what I would like to say is that we have come to a consensus on a letter, and there has been a request that we have a recorded vote with regard to forwarding this letter to the Minister of Finance and copying the other positions, the Privy Council and the Treasury Board.
We will move now to the motion:
That the Committee send a letter to the Minister of Finance regarding funding of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada.
We will have a recorded vote.
(Motion agreed to: yeas 8; nays 0)
I obviously am in favour, though I don't need to vote to break a tie. It is unanimous, and it's good to announce that the letter we will send has the unanimous support of the committee.
I will now defer to Mr. Christopherson, please.