Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, as we move forward with our meetings on remediation agreements, the Shawcross doctrine, and the discussions between the Office of the Attorney General and government colleagues relating to SNC-Lavalin. This is an important meeting where Canadians will be able to hear answers to questions that are swirling around.
I want to set out some rules for these meetings. Because we want to give people the opportunity to pose questions fairly and because the time limits are set, I want to make sure that people's questions are answered. Witnesses have the right to answer the question, but witnesses need to be succinct in their answers so as not to take away the time from people on their questions. I will strictly monitor the time limits. As a chair, I'm usually very flexible on time, but here we're going to stick with six minutes, six minutes and six minutes so that we give everybody a fair shot to get through the rounds, and so everybody gets their questions in.
I’d like to ask all of the witnesses to provide rather brief answers.
Mr. Fortin, we are pleased to have you here with us today.
Today, in our first meeting on the subject, we're joined by the honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.
We also welcome Ms. Nathalie G. Drouin, Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General of Canada.
We will now hear presentations by witnesses, and we will begin with Mr. Lametti.