I call this meeting to order. Welcome to meeting number 53 of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(g), the committee is meeting today to resume its study on “Report 8: Emergency Management in First Nations Communities—Indigenous Services Canada”, and of the 2022 reports of the Auditor General of Canada.
I would like to welcome our witnesses. For the first hour, there will be a change up, or a departure in about one hour.
First, let me welcome the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous Services. Thank you for being here today.
Also from the Department of Indigenous Services, we have Gina Wilson, deputy minister, Joanne Wilkinson, senior assistant deputy minister of the regional operations sector, Valerie Gideon, associate deputy minister, Kenza El Bied, director general of the sector operations branch in the regional operations sector, and Rory O'Connor, director general of the regional infrastructure delivery branch in the regional operations sector.
Minister Hajdu, you have the floor for five minutes for your opening statement, and then we'll turn to our members.
Thank you.