Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, meeting four.
The orders of the day, pursuant to Standing Order 81(5), are supplementary estimates (C) 2009-2010, votes 1c, 5c, 20c, and 35c under Transport, referred to the committee on Wednesday, March 3, 2010.
Because we are doing estimates, before I introduce our guests, I do have to just say that we are going to call vote 1c, which opens the debate that we're going to have today. By saying that I will now refer to the Honourable John Baird, who is the Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities. Also joining us is the Honourable Rob Merrifield, who is the Minister of State for Transport. And joining us with the ministers we have, from the Department of Transport, Yaprak Baltacioglu, and also John Forster, from Infrastructure Canada. Welcome.
I know that the ministers have opening statements, so I will ask them to make them and we'll get on to questions. I just want to advise the committee that the ministers are here for one hour and the staff are staying beyond that. Because I think there are going to be lots of questions, I'm going to keep the timelines very tight.
Do you know how long your presentation is, Minister?