We are ready to begin. Thank you for your patience.
I can see from the video camera that we have a full room. I apologize for not being there in person. This is a function of our lives outside of Parliament. We need to get home occasionally, or as frequently as possible.
Welcome to meeting number 35 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(g) and the motion adopted by the committee on October 4, 2022, the committee is meeting today to study “Report 2, Greening Government Strategy”, of the 2022 reports 1 to 5 of the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development.
I'm going to welcome back our witnesses, who have all had a chance to make opening remarks.
I will be relying today particularly heavily on the clerk to help navigate questions, because I'm not able to see the floor as well as I would like. This is certainly a downside of having committees on Fridays. However, that is the Parliament we have been given, so we're going to try to make it work to the best of our abilities.
From the Office of the Auditor General, we have, returning again, Mr. Jerry DeMarco, commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, and Mr. Milan Duvnjak.
From the Department of National Defence, we have Mr. Bill Matthews, deputy minister; Nancy Tremblay, associate assistant deputy minister, materiel; and Saleem Sattar, director general, environment and sustainable management.
From the Department of Transport, we have Michael Keenan, deputy minister; and Ross Ezzeddin, director general, air, marine and environmental programs.
Finally, from the Treasury Board, we have Graham Flack, secretary of the Treasury Board of Canada; Jane Keenan, acting executive director, centre for greening government; and Malcolm Edwards, senior engineer, centre for greening government.
As I mentioned, they've all given their opening remarks.
I appreciate your coming back on relatively short notice to continue and then to conclude our examination into this Auditor General report from the commissioner of the environment and sustainable development.
We're going to start right away with questions. For the first round, we'll give each member six minutes.
I'm going to start with Mr. McCauley from the official opposition.
The floor is yours for six minutes.