Good afternoon, colleagues. This is meeting number 92 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts for Tuesday, April 17, 2018. I would remind all colleagues today that we are being televised, so I would encourage you to take your mobile phones and put them on silent mode so that you don't disrupt our witnesses or other committee members.
Today we are here in consideration of “Report 5—Preparing Women Offenders for Releases—Correctional Service Canada”, of the fall 2017 reports of the Auditor General of Canada.
I welcome to our committee today the Auditor General of Canada, Mr. Michael Ferguson; and from the Office of the Auditor General, Carol McCalla, principal. Welcome.
From Correctional Service Canada, we welcome Ms. Anne Kelly, interim commissioner; Ms. Kelley Blanchette, deputy commissioner for women; and Mrs. Jennifer Wheatley, assistant commissioner, health services.
I would also say that if we do have extra time today, we would like to keep back five or 10 minutes just to do some committee business. You may have seen that circulated by our clerk earlier. It's basically looking ahead at the calendar and some of those things.
We welcome you today. We will begin with our Auditor General, Mr. Ferguson, please.