I'm going to call the meeting to order.
Welcome to everyone, and particularly to our special guests. We have quite a number of panel members today, including Nancy Cheng and Richard Domingue from the Auditor General's office. As well, from the Department of Employment and Social Development we have Gail Mitchell, who is the director. From the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development we have Nicole Kennedy.
I believe that later today we'll have a couple of witnesses from the Department of Industry and the Department of Natural Resources, and we'll introduce them at that time.
Now, because we have many participants today, we've asked each of them to stick to five minutes for their preliminary comments; then we'll begin our round of questioning.
Let's start with Gail Mitchell.