I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 20 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(3)(h) and the motion adopted by the committee on Monday, December 13, 2021, the committee is resuming its study of the use and impact of facial recognition technology.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House order of November 25, 2021. Members are attending in person in the room and remotely by using the Zoom application.
I think everyone here is probably fairly familiar with how this works, so I won't go into more detail. If you're on Zoom, please be sure to unmute yourself when you begin to speak, and certainly select the official language that you wish to receive or simply the floor feed, if that is what you wish.
This is a resumption of the testimony we were receiving from the RCMP and the Toronto police that was cut very short due to votes both before and after our committee meeting began a week ago last Thursday.
With that, I'm going to dispense with opening remarks and go straight to our questioning. We are also monitoring what is going on in the House. There is a notice of time allocation. If it is moved and we end up having a vote this morning, then we will deal with that when it happens. I think we'll have quite a bit of time for questions to resume with these witnesses.
With that, Mr. Kurek will be going first.
Mr. Kurek, you have six minutes.