I'll call the meeting to order, please.
This is our 29th meeting. Congratulations for getting there, folks.
We're here today, in public, to talk about the order of reference of Tuesday, March 6, a question of privilege relating to the member for Provencher. In our good luck, we have him here today to help us with this study.
Minister Toews, it's great to have you here today.
As I said, the meeting is in public today. We have the minister appearing for the first hour and we have Professor Ned Franks for our second hour. We will take a small bit for some committee business, if we can make that work, at the end of the second hour today.
Mr. Toews, I understand you have an opening statement.