Good morning. We'll call the meeting to order.
Good morning, everyone, and to Mr. Stanton, officially, congratulations. Thank you for joining our committee. We'll be very glad to have you with us.
We have a variety of things happening this morning. Before we go to our witnesses, I'd like to acknowledge that we have as viewers some individuals from the Parliamentary Centre, field officers from Ottawa, Ghana, and Senegal, who will be watching the proceedings this morning. You're very welcome, and we're glad to have you with us.
Before we start with our witnesses from Status of Women Canada this morning, I just wanted to go over a bit of what the work plan is for the morning. We'll start with witness presentations. We'll do our rounds of questioning. We'll do our committee business. The first item on the agenda to deal with will be Ms. Mourani's motion. We have a couple of routine motion amendments, and we have three study budgets. All of that should be before you at your desk. Then we will review our calendar of upcoming meetings.
So you should have a variety of things: copies of the presentation from the Status of Women that we're going to receive now, briefing notes from the researchers, Ms. Mourani's motion, the three study budgets, the amended routine motions, in which there was a discrepancy between English and French. I should slow down. We'll be giving you a revised committee calendar as the morning goes on.
We will hear our witnesses until 10:30, at which point we will go into committee business.
Is translation not working? You always manage to get one that doesn't work. Hopefully, we'll get our meeting under way here. Is it working? Is everyone okay with everything? Nobody's talking right now. We'll soon have our representatives from Status of Women Canada.
Let me go forward and introduce our witnesses this morning. We have Florence Ievers, the coordinator; Nanci-Jean Waugh, the director general, governance and communications directorate; Jackie Claxton, director general, women's programs and regional operations; and Hélène Dwyer-Renaud, director, gender-based analysis and accountability directorate.
Thank you very much for coming. We welcome you. We have been looking forward to having you as witnesses. As our committee is getting under way on a variety of important issues, it is important for us to hear from you and from the department. So I will turn it over to you. Thank you for coming.