Good morning, everybody.
We had set aside two meetings, as you know, to discuss the subject matter of clauses 156 to 160, with regard to the Pension Act and the War Veterans Allowance Act, in Bill C-60, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 21, 2013 and other measures.
We have presentations this morning. I will say that the Legion was invited to be one of the presenters. They've sent us a letter saying that they support what's in the proposed changes; they're supportive of the bill as is and decided they didn't need to appear to make that point. Other than that, we have our witnesses, who we'll get to in a moment.
We start this morning with a face that is familiar. We'd ask Mr. Bernard Butler, director general in the policy division of the department, if he'd open with some comments, and then we'll do our usual round of questions. Away we go.
Good morning.