Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thanks to all the witnesses for coming here this evening.
I'd like to start with Mr. Meisenheimer and Mr. Rees. Mr. Meisenheimer, please thank your wife for your presence here tonight. It's very important.
Mr. Rees, you spoke about an unprecedented omnibus bill, and this is certainly extremely controversial. We've seen public meetings with standing-room-only crowds across the country. We saw just this morning in the National Post that Conservatives would lose 50 seats if there were an election today, in part because of their reaction to Bill C-38. There was even a Conservative MP a few days ago who said he'd be voting against Mr. Wilks from Kootenay–Columbia.
So there is a lot of controversy around how everything has been brought together in this bill.