Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the second meeting of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology for this session.
Before us today we have the Honourable James Moore, the Minister of Industry. We also have, from the Department of Industry, John Knubley, deputy minister, and Paul Halucha, director general of the marketplace framework policy branch.
Welcome, gentlemen.
Also, from the Canada Border Services Agency, we have Martin Bolduc, vice-president, operations branch. From the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, we have Superintendent Eric Slinn, director general, support services for federal policing.
We will get right to the witnesses' statements now. We'll be going to the minister first, but let me say for some new members of the committee that we end up in rooms with different clocks at different settings so we'll always take the BlackBerry time, because all of us are synchronized, due to the House of Commons, to the time we operate by. I just wanted to clear that up in case you were looking over my shoulder at the clock behind me.
Now we'll go to the minister's comments. Of course, ladies and gentlemen, you know how this will go: the witnesses will give the testimony and then we'll go to the usual rounds of rotations.
Minister, please go ahead with your comments.