We will call our meeting to order, meeting number 17.
We are here on the orders of the day of Bill C-23, which is before the committee.
I will remind the members that we are televised today and we are doing committee business of course. Mr. Christopherson has the floor, but before he takes it I would like to ask if we can get to committee business today, please. We are here as a steering committee trying to plan our study of Bill C-23, and I ask Mr. Christopherson to start but remember we'd like get to this piece of legislation one day.
Mr. Lukiwski, on a point of order, we're starting early today.