Thank you very much, Mr. Whalen, for your kind words.
I have, frankly, four decades of experience, and 10 as a chief of police in a large metropolitan centre. I've had the opportunity over the course of that career—and certainly as you've already indicated—to manage rather complex files. The cannabis legislation, just as an example, was legislation that had an impact on multiple ministries. In that role I answered directly to the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Health, and the Minister of Public Safety, and also had a great deal of involvement with a number of other federal ministries. I worked with senior officials and the governments of all of the provinces and territories and with municipalities across the country, as well as engaged with first nations and other indigenous communities, because of the complexity of this file. There are a number of files that are managed within the government where it was felt that I could be of some assistance to the ministers in continuing to work and improve some of those processes to ensure cross-ministry collaboration on these important issues—and perhaps, most importantly, because these issue are important to Canadians. The issues that I have been tasked with relating to border security, the irregular crossers who are seeking asylum, and issues around organized crime and gun violence are all issues of concerns to Canadians, and which have, frankly, an impact on many ministers.