Good afternoon, everyone. This is meeting number 87 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
We welcome all of you here today. We remind you that we are televised. If you have a cellphone or any type of mechanical device, we would encourage you to please shut it off or put it on silent mode so we'll have less interruption.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108, we are looking at report 3, “Settlement Services for Syrian Refugees—Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada”, of the fall 2017 reports of the Auditor General of Canada, referred to the committee on Tuesday, November 21, 2017.
We're very pleased to have with us today, from the Office of the Auditor General, Nancy Cheng, assistant auditor general; as well as Nicholas Swales, principal.
From the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, we're happy to have the deputy minister, Marta Morgan; David Manicom, assistant deputy minister, settlement and integration; and Ümit Kiziltan, director general, research and evaluation.
We welcome you here today.
We will begin with Ms. Cheng.