I'd like to bring this meeting to order.
This is the ninth meeting of this session of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security. We are today studying border security.
We would like to welcome our witnesses. From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police we have Mike Cabana, assistant commissioner, and Warren Coons, director. Also, from the Canada-United States Cross Border Crime Forum we have Barry MacKillop, director general, and Joe Oliver, co-chair of the border enforcement group.
We look forward to the information you will supply us with today on a very important issue.
The usual practice at this committee is to allow opening statements of approximately ten minutes, and then we usually open it up for questions and comments, beginning with the official opposition and moving around the table.
Without any further ado, I think we will begin. Who would like to start?
Mr. MacKillop, go ahead, sir.