Good afternoon. I call this meeting to order. Pursuant to the motion adopted on Tuesday, February 1, 2022, the committee will resume its study on the main estimates 2022-23.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to order of the House of Commons on November 25, 2021. Members are attending in person in the room and remotely using the Zoom application. Per the directive of the Board of Internal Economy on March 10, 2022, all those attending the meeting in person must wear a mask except for members who are at their place during proceedings.
I would like to make a few comments for the benefit of witnesses and members. I'm sure looking at everybody on this. You probably already know about your microphone. Touch your microphone. If you're looking for French, English or the floor interpretation, you'll find it on the bottom.
I'm looking at Ken Hardie.
Welcome to our committee today, Niki. You're going to see a different way of how people chair their meetings. We're just going to try to get as much done as we can today.
We know that Minister Ien has a dead stop at three o'clock today, so we're going to be working toward those timelines. We'll be able to do votes after that, but we want to make sure that Minister Ien can be on her way.
We're going to break this into two parts. I would like to welcome our witnesses for our first hour of this panel.
We have the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations. Welcome to Minister Marc Miller.
We have the Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Youth. Welcome to Minister Marci Ien.
From the Department of Women and Gender Equality, we have Alia Butt, assistant deputy minister for strategic policy; Gina Wilson, deputy minister; and Lisa Smylie, director general, research results and delivery branch. From the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, we have Daniel Quan-Watson, deputy minister Thank you very much for joining us today.
I'll be passing the floor over to the witnesses. Because of the time being very short, I will be cutting you off at five minutes, so when you start to see the hammer, please make sure you wrap it up within the next 10 seconds, if you don't mind.
I'm going to take this opportunity now to pass it over to Minister Ien.
Minister Ien, you have five minutes.