Good morning.
I hope you had a wonderful weekend and were able to find some meaningful time in your communities yesterday in honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Colleagues, we are here for meeting 125 of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. As a reminder, as always, to protect the health and well-being of our interpreters, who work so hard on our behalf, please ensure that your headsets, when they are not in use, are sitting on the stickers in front of you.
I notice that we have a couple of guests today. Mr. Nater, welcome. Mr. Louis, welcome to you. Mr. Ruff, it's nice to see you here.
Colleagues, as you know, we are beginning our first set of questions and answers in relation to Bill C-377, which is an act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act. It's always nice when we have a colleague who is able to join us and provide their perspective and testimony on legislation that is before us.
To Mr. Ruff, our colleague from Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound, who's the sponsor of the bill, the floor will be yours for 10 minutes. It's nice to see you here, sir. We look forward to hearing your introductory remarks, and then we will enter into our question and answer period, as usual. With that, Mr. Ruff, the floor is yours.