Ladies and gentlemen, let's begin the meeting this morning. Thank you all, members, for coming.
We do have a quorum, representatives from all parties, so we're going to begin. I just want to remind members that this meeting is being held in public, and as is the usual routine, we are going to need a few minutes at the end of the meeting. There are some motions before us. We'll get to those in one second, but we do want to discuss those as well.
Ladies and gentlemen, today's meeting is the continuation of the discussions of Bill C-31. We are again privileged to have expert witnesses before the committee this morning to help us with our understanding of this bill and our forward movement on the bill.
Mr. Kingsley is with us again this morning. We all know Mr. Kingsley, but I'm going to ask Mr. Kingsley to introduce himself and his colleagues. I just want to remind members that following that introduction we will move to our standard round of questioning. The first round will be seven minutes.
Mr. Kingsley, please.