Good morning, everyone. I will call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number seven of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. The committee is meeting in public and is being televised today.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(g), the committee is meeting today to study “Report 3—Supplying the Canadian Armed Forces—National Defence”, of the 2020 spring reports of the Auditor General of Canada.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format pursuant to the House order of September 23, 2020. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. Just so you are aware, the webcast will show the person speaking rather than the entirety of the committee.
To ensure an orderly meeting, I would like to outline a few rules as follows. You may speak in the official language of your choice. Interpretation services are available for this meeting. You have the choice at the bottom of your screen of either floor, English or French. For those participating via Zoom, before speaking, click on the microphone icon to activate your own mike. When you are done speaking, please put your mike on mute to minimize any interference
Should members need to request the floor outside of the time it has been given to them by me, you should activate your mike and state that you have a point of order. If a member wishes to intervene on a point of order that has been raised by another member, you should use the “raise hand” function. This will signal to the chair your interest to speak, and we will create a speakers list. In order to do so, you should click on “Participants” at the bottom of the screen. When the list pops up, you will see next to your name that you can click “Raise Hand”. This function creates a list of speakers for us.
Unless there are exceptional circumstances, the use of headsets with a boom microphone provided by the House of Commons is mandatory for everyone participating remotely who needs to speak.
Of course, should any technical challenges arise, please advise me.
I'd now like to welcome our witnesses.