I call the meeting to order.
Good afternoon, everyone. I welcome you all to meeting number 65 of the Standing Committee on National Defence and our study on Bill C-15, An Act to amend the National Defence Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
For our first hour, we're being joined by Michel Drapeau, a professor at the University of Ottawa, and by Clayton Ruby, a lawyer from Toronto.
Mr. Drapeau was born and raised in Quebec and served 34 years in the military. He served as the director of National Defence Headquarters Secretariat as well as secretary to the Armed Forces Council. He graduated from the civil law program in 2009 and the common law program in 2000, and he has clerked at the Federal Court of Appeal under the supervision of Justice Gilles Létourneau, from whom we will hear in the next hour. He was called to the bar in 2002 and is an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa. We are very pleased to have him with us today.
Monsieur Drapeau, please proceed with your opening comments.