I'll call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting 42 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women.
Before we begin today, I want to thank the clerk for arranging for Thursday's meeting to be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., in our normal time slot.
Today we're here to talk about the supplementary estimates (A) for 2021-22. We're glad to welcome the Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and officials as well. From the Department for Women and Gender Equality, we have Madam Roy, who is the deputy minister, and Madam Gardiner, who is the assistant deputy minister.
We're going to begin with five minutes of comments from the minister and then we'll go into our rounds of questions.
Minister, you may begin.