I call the meeting to order. This is the second meeting of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
Members, I'm aware that we had planned to hear from Mr. Saunders, the proposed appointee for the position of Director of Public Prosecutions, today. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, the steering committee agreed to recommend that the minister be invited today to discuss the supplementary estimates. Mr. Saunders is confirmed for Wednesday.
If there are no objections from the committee, we will proceed with the review of the supplementary estimates (B) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009. We can then consider the remainder of the steering committee's report following the minister's appearance today. We also have a number of motions that we'll be dealing with; I believe there are five. We'll leave about half an hour at the end of this meeting for that activity.
I was remiss at our last meeting in failing to recognize the staff that we have serving at this committee. It was an oversight and it won't happen again. First of all, I want to introduce our analysts from the Library of Parliament, Dominique Valiquet and Robin MacKay. They're our resource people on legislation and studies. Our clerk is Miriam Burke and she has Isabelle Duford shadowing her. I welcome you to the committee.
Mr. Minister, thank you for appearing. As you know, the normal sequence of events is that you'll have 10 minutes to make a representation to this committee and then we'll open the floor to questions.
The floor is yours.