I call the meeting to order.
This is meeting 25 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Today is Tuesday, May 26, 2009. This is a special meeting called to study the desirability of declaring certain groups criminal organizations.
On today's agenda you will note that we have before us a number of witnesses to assist us in our study. I'll go through the list.
Representing the Sûreté du Québec, we have Serge Vandal, who is the officer in charge of the organized crime intelligence unit; Francis Brabant, legal counsel; and we have Jocelyn Latulippe. Welcome back.
Representing the Public Prosecution Service of Canada we have Christopher Mainella.
We also have Kent Roach, Pritchard-Wilson chair in the faculty of law, University of Toronto.
The Criminal Intelligence Service Canada of the RCMP is represented by Gary Shinkaruk, officer in charge of Project E-Pandora. Also, we have Detective Sergeant Len Isnor, national intelligence coordinator. Finally, we have Superintendent Michel Aubin of the federal and international operations of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
I welcome all of you.
I believe we have a speaking order agreed to. Most of you know that you have ten minutes to present, and then we open the floor to questions. Please don't feel that you have to use up all of the ten minutes. Generally I find that the most productive part of the meeting is when we get a chance to ask you questions and ferret out the information we need to provide a report.
We'll begin with Superintendent Aubin, please. You have the floor.