I'm going to call our meeting to order. This is the 14th meeting of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. We're continuing our study on prorogation.
I'd like to thank our witnesses for coming today. We have three professors: Nelson Wiseman, Hugo Cyr, and Eric Adams. We're going to have them at the table for the whole two hours, so that will give us a lot more time for questioning today. They're going to start us with an opening statement.
Guests, I'll apologize now for our members. This meeting always takes place over a lunch hour. With the schedules we keep, we won't have time to stop to eat any other time today, so our members will be trying to have their lunch while they're listening to you. I apologize for eating in front of you, even if I do it myself, but it's just a necessity of the job with this committee sitting from eleven until one.
We'll get some opening statements from each of you, and then that hopefully will spur on some questions from each of the members.
Mr. Adams first, please.