Thank you very much, Mr. Benoit.
I'd remind the committee that our discussions today, questions and answers, will be to simply accept or not accept the subcommittee's motion.
We will open up for a round of questions, as I indicated earlier. We will go with eight minutes in the first round and five minutes in the second round. Please keep your questions and answers as brief as possible so that all members can have the opportunity to ask their questions and listen to the answers.
Once the questioning is complete, I will remind the committee that we are obliged to make a decision on whether or not to concur in the report. I will hand our decision to the House tomorrow.
Please, if I can ask the committee's indulgence, as the committee well knows, all members of the House are allowed to submit reports or opinions or whatever to the committee. I now will ask the clerk to hand out a letter that we received from Minister Vic Toews, the Attorney General of Canada. I will hand that report out now. I apologize that this wasn't delivered earlier. I just received it, frankly, five minutes before I left for the committee this morning. It is in both official languages.
If the committee agrees, we will proceed with questioning right now.