Good afternoon, everyone.
Welcome to the 43rd meeting of the public accounts committee.
We are meeting today to discuss the Auditor General's fall 2016 report on the Beyond the Border Action Plan.
We have with us from the Office of the Auditor General, Nancy Cheng, assistant auditor general, and Martin Dompierre, who was the principal in charge of the study. We have from the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Gina Wilson, associate deputy minister. We have from the Treasury Board Secretariat, Brian Pagan, assistant secretary, expenditure management. From Privy Council Office, we have David McGovern, deputy national security adviser to the Prime Minister, and from the Department of Transport, we have Laureen Kinney, assistant deputy minister, safety and security, and Catherine Higgens, assistant deputy minister, programs.
Welcome to all. Thank you very much for your presence.
I would invite Mr. Pagan to start us off with his briefing notes. We are waiting for the briefing notes from Mr. McGovern to be distributed to everybody, but they're being photocopied at the moment.
The floor is yours, Mr. Pagan. Thank you.