Order.
This meeting is being videotaped. As our friends here know, this is treated as a regular committee meeting where they focus in on those who are speaking.
This is the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, meeting number 55. Pursuant to Standing Order 81(5) we're dealing with the supplementary estimates (B) this afternoon. We have a number of guests with us, but for the first hour I want to thank the Minister of Justice, the Honourable Peter MacKay, for rearranging his schedule, which I know he did to be able to be here today.
Minister MacKay, the floor is yours for an opening statement and then there'll be a round of questions.