I call the meeting to order.
Good morning, colleagues. I hope everybody's had a good week thus far.
Welcome to the 134th meeting of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.
I want to welcome the witnesses.
As a friendly reminder to our witnesses, if you are not using your earpieces, place them on the sticker in front of you. Of course, if they are in use, having them on your ear is no problem.
Colleagues, we have two hours to meet this morning.
For the first hour, we're joined by Mr. Perrault and Mr. Sampson.
In the second round, we'll have a number of other witnesses with us.
With that, colleagues, I am going to turn the floor over to Stéphane Perrault, the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, and Robert Sampson, the general counsel and senior director of legal services.
Mr. Perrault, you will have up to five minutes for your opening statement, after which we will go to our rounds of questioning. Thank you very much for making yourself available to the committee today on this important piece of legislation, which obviously has a significant impact on the work you do on our behalf and on behalf of all Canadians.
With that, sir, I turn the floor to you.