Colleagues, let's resume the meeting now.
I want to welcome our witnesses. I'm going to give you a minute or two to introduce yourselves. If you have an opening statement, please make it as short as you can, because we'll have time for one round of seven minutes.
I will go past one o'clock. I apologize to colleagues for that. We'll just see whether we can maintain a quorum for gathering evidence.
If you have questions that you want asked but feel that maybe you can't stay, please give them to one of your colleagues, and we'll make sure those questions can get answered. I offer my apologies, but we will be going over.
I want to give members a bit of notice that on Thursday I will be asking the committee to review the budget of the committee, for witnesses' expenses for Bill C-16.
As I've mentioned before, the Ethics Commissioner would like to meet with the committee. I have some suggestions for that, but I want members to think about it.
As well, I would like members to consider striking once again the subcommittee that worked on the forms and the code of ethics last year. We should strike it again. The forms are in, and I would like that committee to review them and make recommendations to the main committee.
The last thing before we get on with our witnesses is that Monsieur Miron has invited the committee to go to visit his facilities. You have two choices of dates before you. I will ask you for a decision on that at the beginning of the next meeting.
Colleagues, I'd rather not discuss it now, if we don't have to; we could discuss it at the next meeting.
But yes, please, Madam Redman.