Good morning, everyone.
As always, it's a pleasure for me to be here.
I call the meeting to order.
This is meeting 115 of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
I will just remind you, colleagues, that we do have new protocols in place in regard to our audio devices. I think we've been through this enough times now that we know the appropriate step is to place the piece on the sticker when it is not in use out of respect for the health and safety of our translators as they do their important work.
Colleagues, I have a couple of housekeeping things before I introduce the topic of conversation for today. We currently have bells planned at about 10:45. We will have to decide at that point in time what we want to do as a committee. We are scheduled to be here for three hours this morning and into the early afternoon. I will be calling a few health breaks, as we have done in the past, to allow witnesses and staff and others the opportunity to move around a little bit.
Colleagues, we are here today to begin our study on a review of the members of the House of Commons workplace harassment and violence prevention policy.
We have a number of familiar faces with us here as witnesses today. I would like to welcome Eric Janse, Clerk of the House of Commons; Michel Bédard, Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel; and Carolyn Evangelidis, chief human resources officer. We also have Patrick McDonell, who is the Sergeant-at-Arms and corporate security officer; as well as Jeffrey LeBlanc, the deputy clerk of procedure.
You will have up to 10 minutes, witnesses, as a group for an opening statement, after which we will proceed to questions from committee members.
Before we begin, I understand that Ms. Romanado wanted to speak to something briefly.
Ms. Romanado, if that's still the case the floor is yours.