I call the meeting to order.
This is meeting 19 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. For the record, today is Thursday, May 27, 2010.
Just as a note to all of you, our steering committee met yesterday. I've asked the clerk to circulate the minutes of that meeting. As today's regular meeting has been abridged due to the address of the President of Mexico, we'll set aside some time at our next meeting to review the steering committee notes. I think it's important that we spend a bit of time discussing the items we talked about at steering committee, but we definitely won't get a chance to do that today.
You have before you the agenda for today. We have with us our Minister of Justice and Attorney General for Canada, the Honourable Rob Nicholson. Minister Nicholson is here to help us with our review of the main estimates, which I believe are due to be returned to the House on May 31. Accompanying the minister is the Deputy Minister, Mr. Myles Kirvan. Welcome to both of you.
Once again, to everyone in the room, please turn off your cellphones and BlackBerrys, or set them to vibrate so that we won't have any interference. If you do get phone calls, please take them outside of the room.
Minister, you have 10 minutes to make your opening remarks. Then we'll go to questions.