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I want to welcome everybody to the eighth meeting of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. Today we're looking forward to hearing an update on pay equity.
Welcome to our witnesses today: Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux; and from the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, Robert Behrend, analyst, and Salma Mohamed Ahmed, research assistant.
Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name. When you want to speak, you can click on your microphone to activate it. All comments should be addressed through the chair. You can choose interpretation very much like you can at all meetings. At the bottom, select floor or either English or French. Please speak slowly and clearly for the benefit of our interpreters.
With that, Mr. Giroux, you have five minutes for your opening comments.