We'll call the meeting back to order.
Sometimes it's very difficult to get prepared when you have a meeting in the first hour and then six or seven witnesses in the second hour, but we welcome you back to meeting number 68 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
In our second hour today, we're conducting a hearing on “Report 1: Managing the Risk of Fraud”, from the spring 2017 reports of the Auditor General of Canada. On Thursday we will continue this with another two-hour meeting. Anything we do today can be extended to the Thursday meeting as well.
The witnesses today include Mr. Michael Ferguson, the Auditor General of Canada; Mr. Paul Glover, president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency; Ian Shugart, deputy minister, Department of Foreign Affairs; Simon Kennedy, deputy minister, Department of Health: Hélène Laurendeau, deputy minister, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development; Marie Lemay, deputy minister, Department of Public Services and Procurement; and, Bill Matthews, Comptroller General of Canada, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat.
We again have an opening statement from our Auditor General. Then we'll have five-minute statements from each of our remaining witnesses. Hopefully, there will be time to go to questions as well.
I think they know the order in which they're going to speak, but we'll first welcome Mr. Ferguson.