Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Witnesses, I expect that you were probably expecting to see Mr. Easter in this seat. I am not a former solicitor general, as he is. Usually I'm on the justice committee, so I'm not as well armed. If my questions appear to be less eloquent and clumsier, there's good reason for that. Although I will say that yesterday we went clause by clause through the victims bill of rights, and one of the decisions that was taken in connection with that bill was to not include victims of terrorist acts abroad, such as the 9/11 victims. So there's a peripheral connection.
I'd like to start with you, Professor. Towards the end of your remarks, you referenced accountability and you talked about the vacancies within SIRC. Could I ask you to expand on that a little further? As you know, Mr. Easter and Joyce Murray, as was referenced by Professor Wark, have championed parliamentary oversight, and Professor Wark went into some detail on that. But could I ask you to talk a little further about what needs to be done, in your view, to get the level of accountability that you referred to up to the international standards of our allies?