Ladies and gentlemen, we'll begin the meeting this morning. I apologize for the delay. Obviously, we have to have this room this morning because of our teleconferencing, which will start at the noon hour. I thank you for your diligence and your patience.
I want to advise members that this meeting is being held in public. Again, we are dealing with our continuation of Bill C-31.
I also want to remind members that at 12 o'clock today we will start our video conferencing. So we have one hour for our first witness.
I would like to welcome the director general of Élections Québec, Monsieur Marcel Blanchet.
Thank you very much for being with us this morning, Marcel. Normally what we do is offer you a few minutes for an opening statement.
Then we would start, colleagues, with our usual round of questions, the first round being seven minutes. I want to just remind members that we have one hour, and if we could keep our questions short and to the point, we'll probably get through more questions than we normally do.
Monsieur Blanchet, the floor is yours.