Colleagues, welcome. We are going to continue into the second hour. Thank you very much to Mr. Lynam, who has joined us from the RCMP as the director general for the Canadian anti-fraud centre. I think your testimony today is going to be quite crucial to our understanding of the role that the federal government plays in addressing this challenge.
Mr. Lynam, you'll have up to five minutes. You are the only witness that we have on this panel, which will allow us to get into the depths of your expertise.
Colleagues, I did mention to a few of you just before gavelling in here that we are slightly behind. We are sitting for three hours today, which will butt up against the beginning of question period, so there may be a slight reduction in this hour and in the next in the amount of allocated time, but we will ensure that everybody has their opportunity to speak.
With that, Mr. Lynam, again, thank you for joining us. The floor is yours, sir.