Good morning, everyone, and welcome. This is meeting number 81 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts on Tuesday, November 28, 2017.
I would remind everyone—and we have a large audience today—that today's proceedings are televised, so I would kindly ask you, if you have cellphone or other communications devices that you can mute, to please do that at this time or to shut them right off.
Today we are studying report 1, “Phoenix Pay Problems”, from the 2017 fall reports of the Auditor General of Canada.
As our witnesses this morning, we have, from the Department of Public Works and Government Services, Marie Lemay, deputy minister, as well as Les Linklater, associate deputy minister. From the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, we have Mr. Michael Ferguson, the Auditor General of Canada, and Jean Goulet, principal. From the Treasury Board Secretariat, we have Ms. Yaprak Baltacioglu. She is the secretary of the Treasury Board of Canada. We also have Cécile Cléroux, assistant deputy minister of human resources, management transformation sector, from the office of the chief human resources officer.
Welcome.
I understand that we have a number of opening statements this morning.
We'll begin with the Auditor General, please.