This is the fifteenth meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), we are dealing with a the study of the report of the commission of inquiry on the events relating to Maher Arar.
We would like to welcome as our witness the former Solicitor General, the Honourable Wayne Easter.
We thank you very much, sir, for appearing before this committee. We are honoured by your presence and we look forward to your testimony. The usual procedure is to give you whatever time you need—ten minutes or whatever. We're not going to be too tight on that. Of course, you know how it works then with questioning and so on, beginning with the official opposition and ending up with the government.
If you are ready, sir, we will turn the microphone over to you.